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, ... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| The New York TimesStephen HoldenThis brilliant, viciously amusing takedown of bourgeois complacency, gender stereotypes and assumptions and the illusion of security rubs your face in human frailty as relentlessly as any Michael Haneke movie. |
| HeyUGuysJo-Anne TitmarshThis film has also been one of the rare opportunities to have laugh-out-loud moments at Cannes this year, and for this we should be grateful to Östlund. |
| Slant MagazineTomas HachardRuben Östlund masterfully manages the marital tensions that drive the film's plot forward while imbuing the scenario with these carefully layered philosophical reflections. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin Putman"Force Majeure" is a blistering, ultimately empathetic tour de force. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA top-notch Swedish psychodrama about a marriage besieged by the fallout from a scary but harmless avalanche. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter Chawessentially the droller, married version of Julia Loktev's masterpiece of relational/gender dynamics |
| The ListEmma SimmondsA penetrating study of human weakness, Force Majeure shows us things about these characters, and by extension ourselves, that we might not want to see. |
| Daily Express (UK)Allan HunterStrikingly original and often extremely funny, Force Majeure is a refreshing change from our steady cinema diet of mindless thrillers and charmless comedies. |
| Irish TimesTara BradyWe say thriller: but don't expect The French Connection. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayForce Majeure leaves the audience squirming — in all the very best ways. |
