Force Majeure

Reno

2015-07-30

⭐ 8

> Family defines unity, in whatever circumstances. A Swedish dark comedy film, about a family and their vacation on the French Alps. It is not my favourite flick, but liked it a lot because of the refreshing theme. A satisfiable storytelling with the beautiful visuals of white planet. It does not feel like a dark comedy, I had some good laughs, I mean the louder ones. I was surprised how cleverly the phases changed in the narration. Starts off like a normal family on the trip, but slowly reveals their hidden natures of the individuals. Sometimes, vacations are not to relax, it will ch…

CinemaSerf

2024-08-24

⭐ 7

Tomas" (Johannes Kuhnke), wife "Ebba" (Lisa Loven Kongsli) and the kids "Vera" (Clara Wettergren) and "Harry" (Vincent Wettergren) travel to the French Alps for a skiing holiday. The first thing you might notice from the initial photography is just how precariously positioned their resort is, and just how seriously the local authorities take the risk of avalanches. It is one of those snowy phenomena that causes a stir amongst this ostensibly loving family. It, itself, isn't especially perilous but with the snow heading towards them "Tomas" does something that his wife really struggles to come …

Almost no scene in a movie is as important as its final scene since the final scene has the potential to make or break the entire movie, no matter how good or bad the rest of it is. Perhaps in no other movie is this fact as clear as in this one becase its final scene ruins the entire movie, which would have a been a masterpiece otherwise. This scene - dubbed the "bus scene" by many - flies in the face of most of the thematic and cinematic genius that the rest of the movie is, not least because of a major unexplained and unjustified contradition in the character of one of the protagonists. …