Tuesday 1 August 2017

Freeview film of the day : tuesday 1st of August

Force Majure (2014 114mins.) [Film4 11.10pm &+1]
Freeview premiere

A man on a skiing holiday in the French Alps flees for his life during an avalanche - leaving his family to their fate. While everyone survives, he soon finds his relationship with his wife and children unraveling as they struggle to forgive him for abandoning them.
Drama, starring Johannes Kuhnke and Lisa Loven Kongsli. In Swedish, English, French and Norwegian.

A clever twist on the "what would you save from a burning house?" question that's played as a dark comedy but has strong trace elements of domestic drama and social comment.

Neatly done by all concerned but special mention for Lisa Loven Kongsli whose performance hits all the right notes as the wife and mother who suddenly finds a lot of the certainties in her life rearranged.

Interesting, intelligent and very well constructed.

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