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Gleefully uncomfortable, Force Majeure is a relationship drama that's hard to watch -- and just as difficult to ignore.
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Östlund and his superb cast have made an odd, gripping movie. Let it rock your world. Apr 10, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Östlund and his superb cast have made an odd, gripping movie. Let it rock your world.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
[A] superb black comedy. Apr 9, 2015 | Rating: 5/5
[A] superb black comedy.
Wendy Ide
An essentially hollow contrivance, more concerned with pushing hot buttons and sparking discussion than organically developing characters or probing complex issues. Apr 9, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
An essentially hollow contrivance, more concerned with pushing hot buttons and sparking discussion than organically developing characters or probing complex issues.
Neil Young
Ruben Östlund's icily disturbing family drama, set in an upscale ski resort in the French Alps, is a disaster movie without a disaster. Apr 9, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Ruben Östlund's icily disturbing family drama, set in an upscale ski resort in the French Alps, is a disaster movie without a disaster.
Peter Bradshaw
For a comedy about emotional pain, this is neither discomforting nor terribly funny, and the satire of bourgeois complacency doesn't cut very deep. Nov 21, 2014 | Full Review…
For a comedy about emotional pain, this is neither discomforting nor terribly funny, and the satire of bourgeois complacency doesn't cut very deep.
Ben Sachs
Ultimately, "Force Majeure" becomes a thoughtful examination, through Tomas and Ebba, of the person who lives inside each of us, emerging only in the most unguarded moments - and not always a person we want to acknowledge. Nov 20, 2014 | Rating: 3/4
Ultimately, "Force Majeure" becomes a thoughtful examination, through Tomas and Ebba, of the person who lives inside each of us, emerging only in the most unguarded moments - and not always a person we want to acknowledge.
Moira MacDonald
Acting is uniformly great, the players conveying as much of their struggles using body language as with words, while Ostlund's white-out scenery is both majestic and alienating. Apr 17, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Acting is uniformly great, the players conveying as much of their struggles using body language as with words, while Ostlund's white-out scenery is both majestic and alienating.
Julie Crawford
Force Majeure is a gripping and deftly observed drama that adds caustic condemnation through its embracing of humour. Apr 4, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Force Majeure is a gripping and deftly observed drama that adds caustic condemnation through its embracing of humour.
Ben Nicholson
The film is incredibly thought-provoking and a frequently funny study of a floundering family dynamic. Dec 7, 2018 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
The film is incredibly thought-provoking and a frequently funny study of a floundering family dynamic.
James Clay
An avalanche descends on a family of tourists and it's not even among the five worst things to happen to them on their cursed ski trip in Force Majeure, the blackly comic Swedish psychodrama from director Ruben Östlund. Nov 20, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An avalanche descends on a family of tourists and it's not even among the five worst things to happen to them on their cursed ski trip in Force Majeure, the blackly comic Swedish psychodrama from director Ruben Östlund.
Simon Miraudo
The early, seminal avalanche scene is a particular masterclass in direction - its effect is as uncanny as the sense of unease it spawns in the married couple. Nov 5, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The early, seminal avalanche scene is a particular masterclass in direction - its effect is as uncanny as the sense of unease it spawns in the married couple.
PJ Nabarro
Rarely has a film taken men to the woodshed for their failings with such a mix of disgust, pity, and wit, the last of which is the key ingredient that helps make Force Majeure such a unique high-wire balancing act. Oct 17, 2018 | Full Review…
Rarely has a film taken men to the woodshed for their failings with such a mix of disgust, pity, and wit, the last of which is the key ingredient that helps make Force Majeure such a unique high-wire balancing act.
Nick Schager
Family drama that easily could have been half an hour shorter. There is some interesting camera work, but a mix of genuine and oddly forced situations and conversations. Parts of the film feel as slow and exhausting as being in a bad relationship. Still, most of the film, like its random end sequence is oddly memorable.
Super Reviewer
An uncomfortable and darkly humored examination of masculinity centered on a family man who becomes a pathetic coward due to some hilarious circumstances while his wife hesitates to deal with it - but the film doesn't know how to end and lingers on for two or three scenes longer than it should.
Self inflicted torture. Thank goodness for the fast forward feature as it would hardly move by itself. So much time spent on showing characters walking, sleeping, eating, brushing, skiing, etc. that hardly adds anything to the story. Just filled with too much of nothingness. There were a handful of worthwhile moments, but not enough to overlook its pacing. Being lauded by so many viewers, I kept waiting for something interesting to happen, but in vain eventually. Even at the end, when they show a group of people walking, I hoped something to happen. But they kept walking for a while, and the movie ended there abruptly. Art lovers & elite cinegoers might surely hail this flick as meaningful cinema, but to ME, it's sheer BS & an exercise in futility.
Probably the best film about a ski holiday ever, with Kubrick style filmmaking coupled with a cringe-worthy black comedy plot.
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