D. Hayden Keenan | Drama | 1982

One night. Four women. A city on the edge. And a film that almost never made it.

Going Down is one of the great lost gems of Australian cinema, and now, newly restored in stunning 4K, it’s coming to the Jetty Theatre for one special screening.

GOING DOWN is an entertaining odyssey.  Set over a raucous 24 hours in the grungy inner-city streets of early 1980s Sydney, Kings Cross, Darlinghurst and Newtown, the film follows four young women living fast, broke and fully alive on the fringes of society. It’s the eve of Karli’s departure for New York, and what follows is a night of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, stolen money, drag queens, dodgy chemists and some of the most searingly honest female performances ever captured on Australian screens.

The film stars Tracy Mann (Sleeping Beauty) Vera Plevnik (Monkey Grip), David Argue (Gallipoli) and Esben Storm (Round The Twist), and is directed by Haydn Keenan (27A).

“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