Partygate

2023

1h 5m

Documentary

Drama

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Karaoke, suitcases of wine, ambushing cake... this factual drama tells the story of Covid from inside 10 Downing Street as staff kicked back at lockdown-breaching parties

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Joseph Bullman

Director

Hugh Skinner

Josh Fitzmaurice

Alice Orr-Ewing

Alice Lyons

Tom Durant-Pritchard

Rory Baskerville

Jon Culshaw

Boris Johnson

Craig Parkinson

Lee Caine

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Hugo Rifkind

Times (UK)

Bullman’s eye is savage, and the party scenes showed faces next to faces and songs shouted in small rooms; all those visceral human intimacies that the rest of us all forgot how to do, then had to learn again.

Oct 10, 2023

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Jack Seale

Guardian

Partygate’s ending lets the Tories off lightly. But the searing contempt and bruised regret in the tale it tells before that is enough. It’s still a vital document of a moment of national shame.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 6, 2023

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Robbie Smith

London Evening Standard

This is the genius of television: to bring the parties we read about in newspaper articles or the clinical Sue Gray report to pulsating, hair-swinging, beer-chugging life.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 6, 2023

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

…programmes like Partygate are vital in keeping a public record of what government today means; no sense of duty or care to the public, just enriching yourself at the expense of others….

Rated: 4/5

Oct 12, 2023

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Sabrina Barr

metro.co.uk

The format of Partygate can be slightly jarring to watch at times, with its mixture of dramatisations, true-life anecdotes from real people, educational captions and breaking of the fourth wall.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 6, 2023

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James Walton

The Spectator

In a rare challenge to the law of diminishing returns, the more it pounded away with its sledgehammer, the more effective it became.

Oct 6, 2023

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Synopsis

Karaoke, suitcases of wine, ambushing cake... this factual drama tells the story of Covid from inside 10 Downing Street as staff kicked back at lockdown-breaching parties

Director: Joseph Bullman
Producer: Aysha Rafaele
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 5m