The Party (2017)
Directed by Sally Potter
Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
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But the stand-out performances in this little chamber piece are Bruno "Hitler" Ganz who ditches his Downfall reputation with one shake of an incense stick as the preachy life coach-cum-healer, Gottfried, and his estranged partner April (a superbly droll Patricia Clarkson), who references their separation and his failings constantly, but gets no satisfactory bite from the cheery bohemian.
April has a way with savage one-liners, which are often directed at her ill-matched romantic partner, Gottfried ( Downfall ’s Bruno Ganz), who uses his vague New Age spirituality to float serenely — or is it slyly?
Bruno Ganz (in a role as far from Downfall ’s Fuhrer as it’s possible to get) is Gottfried, a hippy-dippy spiritual healer on the sharp end of his estranged American partner’s (a hilariously withering Patricia Clarkson) putdowns.
Ganz, perhaps best known for starring as Adolf Hitler in “Downfall,” is a goofy spiritualist named Gottfried.
You’ve seen Ganz as a chillingly credible Hitler in “Downfall;” Murphy as the shell-shocked pilot rescued by Mark Rylance in “Dunkirk;” and Clarkson in “House of Cards,” “Pieces of April” and “The Maze Runner” movies.
April’s estranged new age husband Gottfried (Bruno Ganz) makes one yearn for the actor to resume his comparatively charming yelling Hitler act from Downfall : “It’s just a broken window,” he offers: “not a window into anyone’s soul.”