The suicide of a boy from the Q3 youth club throws social worker Luca off balance. When her friend and colleague Kiran comes under suspicion of having had an inappropriate relationship with the boy, she fights for his innocence. Torn between responsibility, trust, and her own moral convictions, a painful search for the truth begins.
The French-born director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s strategic choice to entrust the interpretation of a conventional, feminine character to a non-binary actor pays off: Corrin’s Lady Chatterley is awkward, edgy, and uninhibited at the same time.
A code adopted by gay men and LGBTQ+ individuals in general to subtly disclose your identity to another, “friend of Dorothy” is widely considered to originate with Judy Garland.
I hadn’t heard of it either until recently—and yet, it’s one of the highest grossing movies of all time.
Initially feeling like a passionate group having a bit of harmless fun with filmmaking, it leads to something sinister enough to leave a mark.
What can I say about this Will Ferrell/Julia Louis-Dreyfus-led “dramedy?” Well, the comedy part of Downhill is completely non-existent. And I should have known that the film was a flop when I walked into an empty theater at a prime time on a Friday night.
