The Dinner trailer: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan and Rebecca Hall lead the cast.
Oren Moverman‘s latest film The Dinner has had its first trailer released. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival back last month to rather mixed reviews, but does boast an impressive cast that includes Richard Gere, Steve Coogan, Laura Linney and Rebecca Hall. The action revolves around an intimate, if slightly pretentious dinner in a very swanky restaurant where two couples are brought together to face up to some pretty heavy conversation. The Dinner trailer can be viewed in the player below.
Here’s the official synopsis:
A former history teacher and his wife Claire meet at a fancy restaurant with his elder brother, a prominent politician and his wife Babette. The plan is to discuss over dinner how to handle a crime committed by their teenage sons. The violent act of the two boys had been filmed by a security camera and shown on TV, but, so far, they have not been identified. The parents have to decide on what to do.
We reviewed The Dinner at Berlinale. Here’s a snippet:
One minute The Dinner has all the trimmings of a good social drama and morality tale, but then it evolves into being the blackest of black comedies particularly during its climactic scenes, and none of it really works. The performances are fairly good, particularly Coogan, who portrays Paul as a tortured soul battling his inner demons (even the accent doesn’t distract), but the rest of the characters are all hugely unlikable in oh so many different ways.
The film left me feeling as Paul and Claire did in that very first scene – a little hungry for something that ultimately never comes, and the lack of interest in returning to spend time with any of these souls any time soon, which is a shame as I really wanted to like it.
Read more at the end of the link. Watch The Dinner trailer below. The film opens in the U.S. on 5th May, 2017. It is currently awaiting a UK release.
