GOING DOWN

Saturday September 28th 8:00PM
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Q & A with Director Haydn Keenan

Synopsis:

Four Australian girls decide to give their best friend a night she'll never forget before she heads to New York and their group breaks up.

Notes:

Going Down is one of the few truly independent outsider films of Australian cinema. It was made on the run without government funding, but it reflects a lifestyle that was not uncommon in the major cities in the early 1980s. Hardcore drug culture had been depicted in Pure S (1975), Bert Deling’s controversial film about heroin users in Melbourne. Going Down was made eight years later in Sydney, and it has some surface similarities, but a completely different feel and purpose. - Paul Byrnes

Reviews:

"I'm not going to say too much about this, because I don't want to spoil it for you. However I'm pretty confident this is the best ever Australian fringe culture movie." - Rotten Tomatoes

“This Riotous lurch around inner city-city lives may go down as the best picture in years”: Meaghan Morris Financial Review

“Not only is Going Down unarguably a key work in the history of independent feature filmmaking in Australia for the way it combines and mutually enriches both naturalistic and expressionistic approaches to narrative cinema; it is also, in its own terms, one of the finest and most memorable films made in Australia”. Adrian Danks

“Going Down is on one level a simple girls-night-out movie, but it is also a sensitive reflection on transience, using familiar Sydney backdrops in ways that are still fresh”. Mark Sawyer SMH

“Reminded me of Fellini’s I Vitelloni”  La Stampa Turin

Trailer:

  • 1982
  • 92 mins
  • MA 15+

Director:

Haydn Keenan

Cast:

Tracy Mann