Heretic Films has released a poster and trailer for writer-director Miguel Ángel Jiménez’s 1970s-set drama The Birthday Party.
Willem Dafoe stars as Marcos, a wealthy businessman who throws a lavish birthday party for his daughter Sofia on his private Mediterranean island, but as night falls, events unfold, jeopardizing both his power and his relationship with his daughter.
The film stars Willem Dafoe, Vic Carmen Sonne, Joe Cole, Emma Suarez, and Carlos Cuevas. Watch the trailer below…
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. The party is a perfect excuse for various people in his life 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 on his daughter’s behalf. Sofia, however, has come to share some important news of her own. As guests start pouring in and night falls, the party grows rowdier and more decadent, while the inevitable clash between Marcos and Sofia reaches a heartbreaking climax.
The Birthday Party is coming soon.
