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‘The Party’s Over’ Review: South of France-Set Satire Follows an Escalating Class Conflict
In 'The Party's Over,' Laurent Lafitte, Élodie Bouchez, Ramzy Bedia and Laure Calamy in an entertaining French satire about employers and the employed.
Nonetheless, the piece has a number of things going for it: top actors obviously relishing their roles, some amusing dialogue, a lovely villa location in the south of France and an attractive musical score by Clémence Ducreux that sounds both serious and mocking. Along the way, the screenplay aptly skewers Philippe’s type, the sort of man who delights in cooking the produce of his organic garden, pairing expensive wines with his meals, yet doesn’t know the correct temperature at which to wash a load of whites. But don’t worry, I’ve made some with clothes on too.” To prepare for her first role, Garance tries and fails to summon tears, but by the film’s end, she finds that she can make them flow all too easily when recounting a fiction of supreme importance to her family.
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