![]() ![]() The incident is an avalanche that happens during a middle-class Swedish family’s ski break in the Alps. He delivers a (literally) earth-shaking show-stopper some 10 minutes in, and for the rest of the film leaves us – and, crucially, his traumatised characters – getting to grips with the event and its consequences. ![]() In Force Majeure, Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund does it differently. T he common wisdom about moments of high spectacle in cinema is that they’re best built up to, saved till last: hit your viewers with a closing whammy, whether it’s a Busby Berkeley dance finale or the apocalyptic slamdown in an action movie, and send them home shaking.
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