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Sep 6, 2014 · September 6, 2014 8:15pm. The Riot Club Still - H 2014. Courtesy of Toronto International Film Festival. TORONTO — Lone Scherfig showed a probing understanding of English life and class ...
Mar 27, 2015 · Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening. Lone Scherfig. Director. Laura Wade. Writer.
Mar 22, 2015 · Laura Wade’s adaptation of her own 2010 play, Posh, begins with a throwaway prologue, set within a faux-Restoration period, in which an aristocratic type happens upon his wife having sex with Lord Riot (Harry Lloyd). Cut to present-day Oxford, where Miles (Max Irons) and Alistair (Sam Claflin) are “freshers” and soon-to-be Riot Clubbers.
At Oxford University the hottest invitation is to join The Riot Club, a privileged and exclusive club for the best and brightest. First years - and polar opposites - Miles and Alistair are singled out as potential recruits. Seduced and flattered by the exclusivity of the club and the power it promises, they accept an invitation to an evening of debauchery and excess which eventually explodes ...
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.
