Force Majeure – Sweden (2014)
Drama, Event
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A critical favourite and word-of-mouth sensation at 2014’s Cannes Festival, where it took the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard. This wickedly funny and precisely observed psychodrama tells the story of a model Swedish family (handsome businessman Tomas, his willowy wife Ebba and their two blond, pre-teen children) on a skiing holiday in the French Alps. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down… Directed by Ruben Ostlund.