Shown: January 16, 2015 at 6pm
Director : Ruben Östlund
Country : Sweden
Release Date : 2014
Duration : 120 mins
Language : Swedish
Subtitles : Yes
An avalanche seems a suitable metaphor for trouble that starts small, gathers momentum and ultimately threatens to wipe out the peaceful balance of an up-market Scandi couple’s ski vacation – and possibly even their marriage – in Ruben Östlund’s precisely calibrated fourth feature Force Majeure. By no means a traditional disaster movie, in which the audience’s pleasure scales in direct proportion to the pandemonium witnessed onscreen, Östlund’s unsettling psychological thriller leads with the spectacular incident and studies its disastrous consequences on each of the family members involved.
“Visually stunning even in its most banal moments and emotionally perceptive almost to a fault, the film stands to complicate many a romantic arthouse date.” (Peter Debruge – Variety Magazine)