Henderson, Indira Varma, Rufus Sewell and Olivia Williams attend a Hampstead dinner party that takes a dark turn in a play-like sendup that could go harder
here are echoes of Carnage and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in this satire of north London liberals. It’s an original script but has the staginess of a filmed play, set almost entirely in one location: a big fancy house in Hampstead where two uber-successful couples in their 50s are chattering over dinner. I wasn’t totally convinced by the dialogue; some of the lines aren’t especially clever or witty given that this is a bunch of highly intelligent over-achievers.
Where the film gets into difficulties is that the farce that follows the suicide is mostly strained and unfunny. Sarah takes control, deciding that on no account can the police be called and jeopardise the house sale. In Henderson’s sly, slippery performance, Sarah’s layers of liberal decency peel away, self-preservation kicking in.
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