Carnage

Roman Polanski 2011 | 79 minutes

Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C Reilly and Christophe Waltz star in this deliciously claustrophobic black comedy film from Roman Polanski.

Like a modern update of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the film places two well-to-do New York couples in an apartment – and as their civility and inhibition washes away, the geniality vanishes, descending fully into verbal warfare with all their character flaws laid bare.

★★★★ The work of a master, this wickedly funny film is beautifully orchestrated and controlled. OBSERVER

★★★★★ One of the funniest and most intelligent films of the year so far. DAILY MAIL

★★★★ A captive, caustic exercise in confinement and hysteria. The suburban sitcom flirts with Michael Haneke. TIME OUT