敏腕政治家・ジャネットの大臣就任を祝うべく、友人カップル3組が集まりホームパーティが開かれる。3組はそれぞれ問題を抱えており、室内には不穏な空気が漂っていた。そんななか、ジャネットの夫・ビルの爆弾発言が発端となり、パーティはあらぬ方向へ…。
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監督: Sally Potter
脚本: Walter Donohue / Sally Potter
制作: Kurban Kassam / Jim Reeve / John Giwa-Amu
撮影監督: Алексей Родионов
制作会社: Adventure Pictures / Great Point Media / Oxwich Media Limited / Copenhagen Film Fund
Yikes, if you thought Abigail had a noxious party, just be glad you didn't get an invitation to this one! "Janet" (Dame Kristen Scott Thomas) receives a call telling her of an important ministerial promotion in the government and some of her friends are coming round to congratulate her. Meantime, her husband (Timothy Spall) is sitting listlessly in a chair supping some wine. As the plaudits fly around the room, he casually makes an announcement that rather rains on his wife's parade. This, however, is just the start of the evening's woes as it turns out that just about everyone has some kind of secret to keep and tempers are about to flare! Spall's "Bill" is probably the most impactful of the characters. Though he actually says very little, he still manages to set the cat amongst these dysfunctional pigeons with aplomb. Thereafter, it's not the most plausible of scenarios - if only because few of these characters would ever be friends in a real scenario. Bruno Ganz delivers some ridiculous one-liners decrying just about everything the West has to offer and Cillian Murphy seems to spend most of his time looking for a flat surface. It's all perfectly toxic, but woefully undercooked and seems more contrived to force animus than to be a remotely realistic gathering of people who share the same friend - even if she is a politician. It's short and sweet, but has too much of the stage play about it and leaves too much of the story outside.
