Karen Gillan's film weaves together both the past and the present, folding situations into each other with an ease that brushes past any initial audience confusion
Gillan's "Not Another Happy Ending", was an insufferably twee comedy, but "The Party's Just Beginning" goes way over-the-top in the other direction, offering a breathlessly lurid account of growing up in Inverness that's equally shrill and unconvincing
a strikingly odd and original debut that is admirable for taking the triple-threat of suicide, depression and addiction in its nonchalant stride, although the confusing presentation of separate timelines mutes the overall impact
a downbeat, interesting-but-flawed drama; I can't help thinking Gillan's superpower as a writer and performer might actually be comedy. Still, always a compelling screen presence, she's now a film-maker to watch
by Eddie Harrison [The List Film (UK) ]
