The Birthday Party
MovieTitle | The Birthday Party |
User score | 6.4 |
Release date | Dec 9, 1968 |
Genre | Drama, Comedy, Thriller |
Director | William Friedkin |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | Palomar Pictures International |
Run time | 123 min. |
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.