TxMike My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library. Well we started. She abandoned it first, I got about half-way.The first problem is there is no clear story line. It turns out to be a party to celebrate one woman's getting appointed to a government position, a number of friends come over to her house. But the characters are all too quirky and the dialog too unrealistic. There are a few "glowing" reviews here but I suspect most if not all are shill reviews to get people to see the movie. I am a great movie fan, I have written thousands of reviews here over the past 20 years, in general I really like British movies, but this one is definitely a movie for only a very narrow section of movie fans. For those of you who really like it, I applaud you. But I believe most will find it just about as I did. A waste of time.

Marengo304 This is a terrible movie. It tries to be witty like "Le prenom" but is just 70 minutes of superficial talk by dull characters. Also it wants to be fascinating and fun like "Carnage", but fails miserably at establishing anything. Whoever is interested in cliches might be amused by it. However, if u like to see three-dimensional characters thinking and acting in a reasonable manner, the only joy this film offers you is to laugh at its conceitedness.

careyroach It's ironic that Clarkson's character accuses her husband of the overuse of cliche. These wonderful screen actors try so hard but they can only do so much with this predictable, hackneyed script. Not sure why but I was especially disappointed with the title. This was never going to be a party.

robertclark-1 Short and very much to the point with some fine lines. The dialogue is tight and focused on the cliches of each characters' beliefs, delivered with excellent, pent up performances, deliciously, and unflatteringly revealed in intense black and white close ups. A small group of self-regarding, thinking bourgeoisie, each with their own set of life-style ideals, each complacently convinced of their own brilliance, all thinking they are right and very right-on, meet each other in the raw. Secrets, lies and betrayal lurk slightly beneath the surface of their self-satisfied lives. Yes, this does pick on the contemporary, unquestionable, politically-correct shibboleths of a particular group of people, admittedly in an exaggerated and very focused way, but how better to really get to the soul of their self-obsessed narcissism. Look a little deeper, though, and it mirrors much that is going wrong with our media-obsessed, sound bite, reality tv, celebrity worshiping, disfunctional times. It could be called 'close up' because that's what it is, a close up look at our own vanities. Modern theatre at its best, and brilliantly brought to the big screen.