Force Majeure

2014

Before he won his first (yes, first!) Palme d’Or by exposing the posturing found in much of the art world and social justice movements in the uproariously uncomfortable The Square in 2017 (he won again in 2022 for Triangle of Sadness), Swedish director Ruben Östlund broke on to the international film scene with this tense but sympathetic case study of h…