SATIRICAL movie The Party will be the first screening of the New Year by Keighley Film Club.
Kristin Scott-Thomas plays a post-modernist, post-feminist career politician who gets promoted to shadow minister of health.
She attends a party to celebrate her promotion with a mixed group of middle-class professional friends who rarely seem to practice what they preach.
Existing and new relationships are challenged, a terminal illness announcement is ignored, and the friends turn on each other in a way described by one reviewer as a “bourgeois feeding frenzy”.
Film Club spokesman Alan Watkinson said the film, in which director Sally Potter tears back the veneer of respectability of middle-class society, was a snappy black comedy.
Mr Watkinson added: “The film is a critical portrait of a certain societal sector whose surface is exposed for all its bile and bitterness.”
The Party will be screened at Keighley Picture House, North Street, on January 26 at 6pm and is open to non-members. Doors open at 5.35pm.
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