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Turist (Force Majeure)

Turist (Tourist) (Force Majeure)

2014

Ruben Östlund

Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven, Vincent Wettergren, Clara Wettergren ...

6.4

9,862

Drama 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 ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Henry Barnes The Guardian	"Ruben Östlund's film, about a father who abandons his family during an avalanche, brushes off the surface layer of human behaviour revealing ice underneath. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"'Force Majeure' is both funny and sad (...) It's one of the highlights of 2014. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"
		Peter Debruge Variety	"Ruben Ostlund’s precisely calibrated fourth feature (...) [is] visually stunning even in its most banal moments and emotionally perceptive almost to a fault."
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"Meticulous and deliberately paced, 'Force Majeure' unexpectedly hits the viewer like an emotional avalanche. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Filmmaker Ruben Östlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller, redefining courage and family in the process. 'Force Majeure' is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"This brilliant, viciously amusing takedown of bourgeois complacency, gender stereotypes and assumptions and the illusion of security rubs your face in human frailty as relentlessly as any Michael Haneke movie."

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