A shipping magnate throws a party

Willem Dafoe plays a Greek shipping magnate in The Birthday Party , another barbed critique of life among the obscenely rich. Basing his movie on a 2007 novel by Panos Karnezis , writer/director Miguel Angel Jimenez creates a fictionalized view of a character who resembles Aristotle Onassis. Aways adventurous, Dafoe plays Marcos Timoleon, a calculating boss who’s accustomed to controlling…