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A critical sensation this year at Cannes, where it took the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard, this wickedly funny, precisely observed and visually striking psychodrama from Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund centers on a model family — handsome businessman Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke), his willowy wife Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) and their young son and daughter- on a skiing holiday in the Alps. During lunch at a mountainside restaurant, a sudden avalanche causes no damage but creates a rupture in the family order and Tomas’ identity as family patriarch. In Swedish with English subtitles. Writer/Director: Ruben Östlund. (Sweden 2014) 118 min.