I wasn't impressed with this film, I expected more from Jennifer Jason Leigh who is one of my all time favorites. First of all she has Alan Cummings as her husband. Yes, he's supposed to be married. To a woman. This is the central relationship, and it doesn't hold up because it's just not believable. I enjoyed the calvacade of stars (Kevin Kline, Jennifer Beals, Gwenneth Paltrow, Parker Posey) all stopping by, but it all didn't add up to much I'm afraid. It's also very very long and filmed in kind of an odd way. As the reviewer in Film Comment said, "every impulse is masturbatory. The film wants to satirize the sense of entitlement that disfigures its 'characters,' but that's precisely the state of mind that got the film made in the first place." All that, and not much of a plot too. It all felt very indulgent and too long.
Review of The Anniversary Party
