“Downhill” feels a lot like it should be a comedy. It looks like one, for starters. It stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the most lauded comedic actress on American television, and Will Ferrel…
, the “Saturday Night Live” goofball whose caricatures of men and masculinity have carved out an inimitable place in American humor.” reads like a comedy, too. An absurd event — an approaching, but ultimately harmless avalanche at a bougie Austrian ski resort — begets an absurd outcome: a husband who runs from his family in the face of danger and incites an existential crisis in his marriage.
An adaptation of the Swedish film “Force Majeure,” “Downhill” isn’t one big punchline for marriage, even if two titans of American comedy are on the poster. Rather, the film — and the central conflict between wife Like any Hitchcock film, “Downhill” doesn’t place characters with whom we’re meant to sympathize in dignifying situations — though, like most American adaptations of European social satires, “Downhill” does lend Pete and Billie more compassion. Instead, it asks us to recognize insecurity, fear and relief in ourselves, reflected in Pete’s instinct to abandon his family and Billie’s questioning of the constitution of their marriage.
He continued: “It’s a movie about truth and honesty, and exploring someone who is probably the most complex character I’ve gotten to play — a real character — is an exciting challenge. I’m usually playing high-concept, over-the-top-comedy, but Pete is a real, grounded person who’s faced with trying to dig himself out of this hole.”
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