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What grade would you give this film?
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The Party is a 1968 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet. The film has a very loose structure, and essentially serves as a series of set pieces for Sellers' improvisational comedy talents. The comedy is based on a fish out of water premise, where a bungling Indian actor accidentally gets invited to a lavish Hollywood dinner party and "makes terrible mistakes based upon ignorance of Western ways."

The Party is considered a classic comedic cult film. Edwards biographers Peter Lehman and William Luhr said, "The Party may very well be one of the most radically experimental films in Hollywood history; in fact it may be the single most radical film since D.W. Griffith's style came to dominate the American cinema." Film historian Saul Austerlitz wrote, "Despite the offensiveness of Sellers' brownface routine, The Party is one of his very best films... Taking a page from Tati, this is neorealist comedy, purposefully lacking a director's guiding eye: look here, look there. The screen is crammed full of activity, and the audience's eyes are left to wander where they may."

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Pretty good slapstick that turns utterly nuts in the last half hour or so. The comedy was working well for much of the movie, despite Sellers' annoying character, but all of a sudden it goes completely over the top and just dissolves into madness. An elephant shows up, the house fills with bubbles, and everyone starts dancing. Definitely a film of the '60s. Besides that, though, it's a rather simple concept executed well, except for the unbelievable romance that develops. It's firmly at odds with the comedy in the film and feels anything but natural. Still, it's utterly hilarious at times, and it does have some interesting social commentary within it, so I'd give it a bare recommendation. Just.

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Contains the best death scene ever committed to celluloid. The rest is pretty good farce as well.

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the greatest film ever made.


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Birdy num num... birdy num num...


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