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.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 58 min.
- Country, year
- Sweden, Denmark, France, Norway, 2014
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Swedish
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Ruben Östlund
- Screenplay
- Ruben Östlund
- Cinematography
- Fredrik Wenzel
- Cast
- Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren, Vincent Wettergren, Kristofer Hivju, Fanni Metelius
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- Un Certain Regard Jury Prize
- unknown - 1
- unknown - 1
Director
Ruben Östlund
Ruben Östlund was born in 1974 in Sweden. He started as a director of skiing films in the 1990s, studied graphic design before enrolling at the film school in Göteborg , from which he graduated in 2001. His feature debut was The Guitar Mongoloid in 2004. Film Involuntary (2008) was distributed in more than twenty countries and shown at numerous festivals. Two years later, he won the Golden Bear in Berlin for his short film Incident by a Bank (2010), which was screened in Scanorama. In 2011, his third feature film Play received many prestigious awards.
