Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Willem Dafoe: “The Birthday Party”



"The Birthday Party” is a new thriller, directed by Miguel Ángel Jiménez, based on the novel by Panos Karnezis, starring Willem Dafoe, Carmen Sonne, Joe Cole, Emma Suárez, Christos Stergioglou, Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos and Elsa Lekakou, with a release date TBA:


 “…in the 1970’s,  somewhere in the Mediterranean, ‘Marcos Timoleon’ (Dafoe), an ‘Aristotle Onassis’-like tycoon, is throwing a lavish, extravagant birthday party for ‘Sofia’ (Carmen Sonne), his daughter & sole heiress, on his exclusive private island. 


“The party is a perfect excuse for various people to approach him with their own agendas. But Marcos, who is used to ruthlessly controlling everything and everyone around him at whatever cost, is also secretly plotting a big decision…”


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