Life Upside Down

Directed by Cecilia Miniucchi

★★½

Description: LIFE UPSIDE DOWN - Still 5

Characters/Actors: Jeanie Lim as “Mrs. Wigglesworth”, Bob Odenkirk as “Jonathan”, Radha Mitchell as “Clarissa”, and Carl Alacchi as “Gallery Employee” in Cecilia Miniucchi’s LIFE UPSIDE DOWN.

Type: Gallery

Photo Credits: Courtesy of IFC Films. An IFC Films Release.

Although the Covid-19 pandemic is nothing to laugh about, it is inevitable that comedies will be made to highlight our world’s struggle and how we endured. Life Upside Down looks to do just that. Let’s just hope the next one of these is actually funny.

Life Upside Down has Bob Odenkirk top-billed as an artist who is in the middle of somewhat of a midlife crisis and is having an affair with his curator played by Radha Mitchell, who is actually the protagonist of the film.

The movie attempts to showcase life during the pandemic, and while it is noble that they chose to do this (Life upside Down was made during the height of the pandemic), the story that we see before us is lackluster at best.

Writer/director Cecilia Miniucchi curates (see what I did there) a meandering, pointless tale of pretentious white people worried about money and who they want in their bedrooms. Sure, these things can make for a hell of a story, but the merely pedestrian way Life Upside Down is the antithesis of a captivating story and consistently drains interest more so than it provokes it.

It is admirable that the cast and crew were able to shoot themselves on iPhones and iPads during such an uncertain time, it's a shame the finished product is so damn frustrating and sophomoric.