231 - Force Majeure
We’re taking another dive into the Best International Feature category this week to talk about one of the biggest world cinema successes of the past year, Ruben Östlund. Though he made films before it, 2014 catapulted Östlund with the Cannes premiere of Force Majeure, a dark satire of masculinity, and relationships dynamics, and fight-or-flight impulses. The film continued on the fall festival circuit, amassing critical acclaim and advancing to the Foreign Language Film bake-off list as Sweden’s submission. However, on nomination morning, Force Majeure missed a heavily-predicted nomination.
This episode, we discuss Östlund’s reaction video to missing the Oscar nomination and the films that followed, including two Palme d’Or wins and now Picture/Director/Screenplay nominations for his Triangle of Sadness. We also discuss the immediately pre-COVID American remake Downhill, the lack of an International frontrunner in the 2014 race, and other directors who have won multiple Palmes.
Topics also include this year’s AARP Movies for Grownup awards, shading the International winner that year Ida, and sauna moshpitting.
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Une Affaire de Principe (2024) - #AntoineRaimbault, #BouliLanners, #CélesteBrunnquell, #LisaLovenKongsli, #WimWillaert https://filmonizirani.net/une-affaire-de-principe-2024/
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¿Canjearías parte de tu vida por dinero?… “Paradise”
En un futuro no muy lejano, un método de transferencia de años de vida de una persona a otra ha cambiado el mundo para siempre y ha convertido a la empresa emergente de biotecnología AEON en una compañía farmacéutica multimillonaria.
La historia sigue a Max y Elena, quienes tenían una vida casi perfecta hasta que se enteraron de que debían cubrir reclamaciones de seguro que no tenían en cuenta y que no pueden pagar. Para saldar sus deudas, Elena entrega 40 años de su vida. Despojados de un futuro juntos, ambos contemplan la ruina en que se ha sumido su existencia. Max, que trabaja en AEON, intenta hacer todo lo que está a su alcance para recuperar los años perdidos de Elena. Pero nada será como antes.
Estreno: 27 de julio de 2023 en Netflix.
La película está dirigida por Boris Kunz y cuenta con las actuaciones de Kostja Ullmann, Corinna Kirchhoff, Marlene Tanczik, Iris Berben, Lisa Marie Koroll, Lorna Ishema, Numan Acar, Alina Levshin, Tom Böttcher, Gizem Emre, Lisa Loven Kongsli, entre otros.
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[87] Force Majeure (2014)
Directed by Ruben Östlund
It's funny how nothing really happens here, but it is still somehow life-changing.
A family trip and its many micros near deaths experiences shake their belief in each other and in themselves.
What would do if you thought you were about to die?
And it's not just the adults, they try to escape those conversations but it's inevitable that they need to come out. But I love how while the kids don't have any explicit dialogues about how scary this was for them too, we can still feel their insecurities and mistrust.
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'Force Majeure' from Sweden on MUBI and free on Kanopy
‘Force Majeure’ from Sweden on MUBI and free on Kanopy
One of the surprises in the 2015 Oscar nominations was that Force Majeure (Sweden, 2014), Sweden’s official entry for the foreign language film category and a Cannes film festival winner, did not place among the five nominated films.
Director Ruben Östlund gives us a family on vacation and what appears to be the inciting event of a disaster film, but in fact the killer avalanche is merely an…
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Force Majeure (2014) is about a family shaken by an avalanche and the husband’s seemingly cowardly response. It’s an intense and hilarious social drama about a couple with different views of an event. An elephant in the room.
I think this film is about reconciling with what you did and the person you want to be. When that has a dramatic effect on the ones you love, it can be hard to live with yourself. It’s also about relationships, realizing you don’t live up to your partner’s ideal, or your own.
What an awkward and agonizing ski vacation.
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