Downtown: Michiel van Erp’s drama follows three friends who meet for dinner after a long time, and looks back at how they met and how their relationships evolved in the Dutch gay scene before AIDS, decades earlier. It’s a melancholic film about friendships lost, for a plethora of reasons. The characters are interesting, each in his own way. The two trios of actors give fine performances; the older set carries decades of pain, while the younger set is still at the height of their flamboyance. Sebastián Mrkvicka plays the carefree, promiscuous dad’s boy, and while his physical transition to the bitter version of Hans Kesting is the hardest to buy, they are both convincing and heartbreaking. His best friend, played in the past by Daniel Cornelissen and by Yorick van Wageningen in the present day, carries a different set of pains. Thor Braun and Roeland Fernhout play the third friend, and while the aging is probably the most convincing, it’s also the least developed character. Costume design, by Mattijs van Bergen and John van Vlerken, is spot on in characterizing them. The use of Chet Baker’s version of “I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)” is very effective in setting the mood.