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February 21, 2020

At the Movies: 'Downhill' a showcase for Louis-Dreyfus and Ferrell

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer

The foreign-language film remake has never been the most esteemed sort of Hollywood production, but the timing of “Downhill,” a remake of Ruben Ostlund's 2014 Swedish film “Force Majeure,” hasn't done it any favors.

“Downhill” skies into theater just days after the historic Oscar victory for Bong Joon Ho's South Korean thriller “Parasite,” which for a moment anyway, smashed what Bong called “the one-inch barrier of subtitles.” With so many international films so readily available today, the need of an English-language facsimile is more questionable than ever.


 
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