I admit I was slacking a little bit in updating the list of Foreign Language Oscar submissions for this year, but I just did a complete overhaul and we’re now up to 29 total films submitted, one of which is Cannes Film Festival hit Force Majeure from writer/director Ruben Ostlund starring Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren and Vincent Wettergren. Magnolia picked up distribution rights and will bring the film to theaters on October 24.
Here’s the synopsis:
A critical favorite 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 children–on a skiing holiday in the French Alps. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant an avalanche suddenly bears down on the happy diners. With people fleeing in all directions and his wife and children in state of panic, Tomas makes a decision that will shake his marriage to its core and leave him struggling to reclaim his role as family patriarch.
Check out the trailer and poster below and for the complete list of 29 Foreign Language contenders submitted so far click here.
