This slow-building Swedish drama (with a number of comedic parts) uniquely and subtly explores modern gender roles. Tomas and Ebba (Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli) are a married couple who take their young son and daughter to a ski resort in the French Alps. They seem like, and are, an ordinary family. But a near-disaster the next day has the children frightened and their parents estranged over their divergent reactions in the face of an apparent emergency.
In depicting this estrangement, as well as the reactions of another couple, friends who hear what happened, writer-director Ruben Östlund asks, in the age of egalitarian marriage, whether fundamental differences remain between men and women, what they still expect in a partner, and how trust and respect can be regained when they’ve been lost.
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viewed 10/26/14 3:00 at Ritz East [Philadelphia Film Festival]
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