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A critical favorite at this year's Cannes Film 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 children—on a skiing holiday in the French Alps. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche suddenly bears down on the happy diners. With people fleeing in all directions and his wife and children in a state of panic, Tomas makes a decision that will shake his marriage to its core and leave him struggling to reclaim his role as family patriarch.
 
Director and Scriptwriter: Ruben Östlund
Director of Photography: Fredrik Wenzel
Music: Ola Fløttum
Production Design: Josefin Åsberg
Costume Design: Pia Aleborg
Make-up and hair: Erica Spetzig
Sound: Kjetil Mørk, Rune Van Deurs, Jesper Miller
Sound Mixer: Andreas Franck, Gisle Tveito,
Erlend Hogstad
Editing: Ruben Östlund, Jacob Secher Schulsinger
Casting: Katja Wik, Maggie Widstrand
Producers: Erik Hemmendorff, Marie Kjellson,
Philippe Bober
Line Producer: Sofia Aspeheim
Executive Producers: Jessica Ask, Film i Väst
Coproducers: Marina Perales Marhuenda,
Katja Adomeit, Yngve Saether
Production Companies:
Plattform Produktion AB (Sweden)
Parisienne (France)
Coproduction Office ApS (Denmark)
Motlys (Norway)
In co-production with Film i Väst,
Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
Supported by Svenska Film Institutet,
Eurimages, Norsk Filminstitutt, Nordisk Film & TV Fond,
Det Danske Filminstitut - Minor Ordningen,
BLS Business Location Südtirol - Alto Adige,
Cinémas du Monde - Centre national du cinéma et de l'image
animée - Ministère des Affaires étrangères - Institut français,
MEDIA Programme of the European Union
ZDF/Arte in collaboration with Arte, Sveriges Television,
C More, DR, YLE
Johannes Bah Kuhnke – Tomas
Lisa Loven Kongsli - Ebba
Clara Wettergren – Vera
Vincent Wettergren – Harry
Kristofer Hivju – Mats
Fanni Metelius – Fanni
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“THE MOVIE TO SEE AND TALK ABOUT IF YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE THE ABSOLUTE BEST IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA. The film of the moment in NY and LA.” – Kenneth Turan, LA Times
“THE MOST ACUTELY OBSERVED COMEDY OF THE YEAR, IF NOT IN SEVERAL YEARS. A breathless black diamond course of social stress and embarrassment.” – Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
“****. SO INTRICATELY CONSTRUCTED, SO SKILLFULLY PLANNED AND EXECUTED. Like an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” shot through with Scandinavian austerity.” – Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
“FORCE MAJEURE IS A JOLT. YOU WON’T KNOW WHAT HIT YOU. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“THIS FILMMAKER IS IN CONTROL AT EACH AND EVERY MOMENT, AND DOES HE EVER KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING. Shrewd, bitingly comic and psychologically astute.” – Kenneth Turan, LA Times
“RIVETING. BOTH WEIGHTY AND WICKEDLY FUNNY. It hits the viewer like an emotional avalanche.” – Claudia Puig, USA Today
“A BRILLIANT, VICIOUSLY AMUSING TAKEDOWN OF BOURGEOIS COMPLACENCY.” – Stephen Holden, NY Times
“THE RARE KIND OF MOVIEGOING EXPERIENCE THAT WILL HAUNT YOU LONG AFTER YOU LEAVE THE THEATER. Grade A-.” Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
“POTENT. UNLIKE ANY FILM I’VE SEEN. A film that makes your murmur in amazement as you watch.” – David Edelstein, New York Magazine
“AUDIENCES WILL FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO RESIST THE MOVIE AND THE TICKLISH POINTS IT PURSUES.” – John Anderson, Wall Street Journal
“GORGEOUS AND MAJESTIC. AS FUNNY AS IT IS APPALLING.” – Bob Mondello, NPR
“WICKEDLY FUNNY. A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH.” – Anders Wright, San Diego Union Tribune
“A PERFECTLY CALIBRATED, ICY-DRY COMEDY. Grade A-.” – Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
“A BEAUTIFULLY MADE, BRILLIANTLY DARK COMEDY.” – Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“ONE OF THE CINEMA'S MORE REVEALING PORTRAITS OF MANHOOD AND MARRIAGE.” – Roger Moore, McClatchy Wire
“**** BEAUTIFUL.” – Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
“BRILLIANT. A prickly moral comedy for grown-ups, full of sharply observed moments, spectacular scenery and masterfully manipulated atmosphere.” – Andrew O’Hehir, Salon
“THRILLING AND ELEGANT. CONSISTENTLY ENTERTAINING. A must-see dark comedy.” – Erica Abeel, Huffington Post
“BRILLIANT. Intellectually and visually enthralling and often savagely funny.” – Dana Stevens, Slate
“A brutally smart and original film. Its edge is so keen, and its movements so deft that it’s not till you’re out the cinema and up the road that you realize how cutting it was. “ – Jessica Kiang, The Playlist
“AN ICE-COLD KNOCKOUT. Brilliantly perceptive and frostily funny.” – Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
“**** A SLY, REMARKABLE ASSURED, TARTLY FUNNY COMEDY.” – Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY
“****. A sly tease, superbly written and performed, with odd humor and set against gorgeously shot natural vistas.” – Jordan Hoffman, NY Daily News
“WICKEDY ENTERTAINING.” – Ashley Clark, L Magazine
“Sophisticated, stingingly clever and well-executed. Filmed with crystalline clarity and observant humor” – Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
“ONE OF THE BEST FILMS I’VE SEEN THIS YEAR.” – Moze Halperin, Flavorwire
“UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE MOST ENJOYABLE FILMS OF THE YEAR.” – Ryan Aldrich, Twitch
“It stands to complicate many a romantic arthouse date” – Peter Debruge, Variety
“An impressive and adult piece of work, bracing and intelligent. I found myself deeply impressed by how complex and smart the movie is.” – Drew McWeeny, Hitfix
“It brushes off our surface layer, shows us the icy truth underneath.” – Henry Barnes, The Guardian
“FORMALLY MASTERFUL. A damning, frequently hilarious study of imploding male ego.” – A.A. Dowd, AV Club
“Formally astounding, acutely observed. Force Majeure recalls a less clinical and more funny Michael Haneke.” – Scott Tobias, The Dissolve
“TRIUMPHANTLY CINEMATIC. As sustained an exercise in cringe-inducing humor as anything produced by Larry David or Ricky Gervais, and arguably more controlled, turning on a dime between exquisitely calibrated laughs and unsettling emotional violence.” - Abhimanyu Das, Slant
“THRILLING, INTELLECTUAL AND BEAUTIFUL AT ONCE. There's hardly a moment when Östlund's command of tone and pacing, his clarity of expression, isn't on display.” – Thomas Hachard, Slant
“Laughs come so rapidly and wisely that viewers may find it difficult to catch their breath." – Kate Erbland, Film School Rejects
“Intelligent, haunting, powerful filmmaking.” – Jason Bailey, Flavorwire
“HILARIOUS - A REAL WINNER. The screenplay and direction feel nearly unimprovable in their clarity of purpose, brutal humor and alarmingly complete observational prowess.” – Nathaniel Rogers, Film Experience
“A wickedly funny adult comedy. Do not miss the chance to see this.” – George Prentice, Boise Weekly
“Just be careful...the chill of Force Majeure might follow you home, and force you to sleep alone on the couch." – Sean O’Connell, Cinema Blend
“Both highly entertaining and pointedly thought-provoking.” – Adam Chitwood, Collider
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