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Force Majeure

1 hr. 58 min. | Drama | N/A

A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life... The anticipated disaster failed to occur, and yet the family’s world has been shaken to its core, a question mark hanging over their father in particular. Tomas and Ebba’s marriage now hangs in the balance as Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role as family patriarch.

Ruben Östlund

Ruben Östlund

Ruben Östlund was born in 1974 in Sweden. He started as a director of skiing films in the 1990s, studied graphic design before enrolling at the film school in Göteborg , from which he graduated in 2001. His feature debut was The Guitar Mongoloid in 2004. Film Involuntary (2008) was distributed in more than twenty countries and shown at numerous festivals. Two years later, he won the Golden Bear in Berlin for his short film Incident by a Bank (2010), which was screened in Scanorama. In 2011, his third feature film Play received many prestigious awards.
Languages
Swedish
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Turist
Produced
2014: Sweden, Denmark, France, Norway

Film information

Director
Ruben Östlund
Screenplay
Ruben Östlund
Cinematography
Fredrik Wenzel
Cast
Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren, Vincent Wettergren, Kristofer Hivju, Fanni Metelius
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