A critical favorite and word-of-mouth sensation at this year's Cannes
Festival, where it took the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard, this
wickedly funny and precisely observed psychodrama tells the story of a
model Swedish family-handsome businessman Tomas, his willowy wife Ebba
and their two blond, pre-teen children-on a skiing holiday in the French
Alps. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during
lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside
down.
With panicked
diners fleeing in all directions, Ebba calls out for her husband as she
tries to protect their children. Tomas, however, makes a decision that
will shake the family's world to its core. Although the anticipated
disaster fails to occur, his marriage now hangs in the balance as he
struggles to reclaim his role as family patriarch.
