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Mar 27, 2015 · Spoiled rich people have been awful for centuries and our theatre, literature, and film has been reminding us of this fact with regularity. To this pile of moralizing fiction about the soulless elite, we can now add Lone Scherfig’s “The Riot Club,” adapted from the play “Posh” by Laura Wade by the author herself. The play caused ...
Sep 6, 2014 · The movie inspired by David Cameron and George Osborne's Bullingdon Club connection lets romance win out over satire. P osh, Laura Wade's play inspired by the Bullingdon Club, in which a mob of ...
- 5 min
- Catherine Shoard
Mar 27, 2015 · Drama, Thriller. R. 1h 47m. By Stephen Holden. March 26, 2015. “ The Riot Club ,” a poisonous satire of Britain’s upper class, adapted from Laura Wade’s play “Posh,” may puncture any ...
- Lone Scherfig
- Stephen Holden
- 107 min
Apr 10, 2015 · Socioeconomic struggle writ large in every scene, The Riot Club feels as if it is trying too hard to make viewers hate the super rich. As if the pompous attitudes adopted by these young men (almost justifiable given their obscene wealth) is not enough to earn our scorn, Laura Wade’s adapted screenplay is packed with misogyny, violence, ignorance and centuries of prominence-turned-sociopathy.
The film, on the other hand, isn't too bad. It's a cross between Brideshead Revisited and Lord of the Flies, sadly with none of their subtlety, but it romps along. In the opening scene, we see The Riot Club's 18th century founder, the 7th Duke of Carlisle, shagging someone's wife. 'He who lives by the sword,' says the narrator - fnarr fnarr ...
Mar 25, 2015 · When movies are driven by dialogue and realism, the characters had better feel real and not like arguments in an essay. Unfortunately, ‘The Riot Club’ never feels close to real, and its social ...
The Riot Club. The Riot Club is a 2014 British thriller drama film directed by Lone Scherfig and written by Laura Wade, based on Wade's 2010 play Posh. [2] The film stars Sam Claflin, Max Irons and Douglas Booth. [3] It is set among the Riot Club, a fictional all-male, exclusive dining club at the University of Oxford.
