Sweden’s entry for this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film was a big winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. In Force Majeure, director Ruben Ostlund creates a riveting and provocative moral drama that explores our values under extreme circumstances. Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke) and his family are enjoying lunch on a ski vacation in the French Alps when the ultimate nightmare occurs. As an avalanche descends upon them, Tomas makes a split-second decision to save himself. The aftermath and toll upon his family and friends makes for a powerful and haunting psychological thriller.
(Sweden, 2014) 118 minutes
