The Birthday Party

Name: The Birthday Party
Duration: 1 h 43 min

1hr 43m

2.6/5 (541)

1hr 43m
2.6/5 (541)

The story is set in the late 1970s somewhere in the Mediterranean, where Marcos Timoleon, an Aristotle Onassis-like tycoon, is throwing a lavish, extravagant birthday party for Sofia, his daughter and sole heiress, on his exclusive private island.

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Miguel Ángel Jiménez

Producer:

Giorgos Karnavas, Olivier Mortagne

Writer:

Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Giorgos Karnavas, Panos Karnezis

Release Date:

Jun 5, 2026

Runtime:

1hr 43m

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Cast

Willem Dafoe
Vic Carmen Sonne
Emma Suárez
Joe Cole
Christos Stergioglou
Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos
Elsa Lekakou
Francesc Garrido
Carlos Cuevas
Maria Pau Pigem

Moviegoers are saying

Critics are serving up ice-cold takes on this Luca Guadagnino film, with Willem Dafoe's nude performance becoming the unlikely star of a divisive 'eat the rich' satire. Audiences found themselves watching what one reviewer brutally called a 'nothingburger' - a single-day narrative that fails to justify its compressed timeline despite Dafoe's committed performance.

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2.6

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2.6

Aug 16, 2026

The things i do to see Willem Dafoe.

36 Likes

RED

Aug 7, 2025

Willem Dafoe be like : Pro-abortion ? Yes. But not pro-choice.

84 Likes

entouan

Aug 14, 2026

Sometimes you see a movie so dull, it’s a struggle to. string words together about it. “The Birthday Party,” Miguel Ángel Jiménez’s meandering snooze fest, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival last year, is the prime example of one such movie. It shouldn’t be this…

12 Likes

Robert Daniels
Aug 7, 2025

i dunno fam, this was kind of a nothingburger for me... first of all the 25 year old looked 35 at least. second of all for making a movie which takes place within a day that day sure has to be interesting. it wasn't all that interesting.

41 Likes

corinnefae

Aug 7, 2025

willem in his birthday suit but the party ain’t even for him..

26 Likes

spiderman

Jul 1, 2026

Η ύπαρξη ενός Γουίλεμ Νταφόε αλά Ωνάση ή Νιάρχου, προϋποθέτει την ύπαρξη μίας Στέγης Ιδρύματος Γουίλεμ Νταφόε ή ενός Κέντρου Πολιτισμού Ιδρύματος Γουίλεμ Νταφόε

21 Likes

eracletus.pap
Aug 15, 2026

For a split second, Willem Dafoe went full Green Goblin!

5 Likes

Ashraf Wahid

Feb 28, 2026

Luca Guadagninospolitation? Really? That's where we're at now? The ultra rich discovering they're awful people and life is meaningless is one of my least favorite genres at the best of times, but good god this was stale. Please can filmmakers stop setting eat the rich…

17 Likes

frucklevision

Aug 8, 2025

always gonna be a hater of a build up without climax

18 Likes

AnninaStella