Magnolia Picks up Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize Winner FORCE MAJEURE

Magnolia Pictures announced today they have acquired the U.S. rights to Ruben Östlund‘s Force Majeure after its Un Certain Regard premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.  The film revolves around a family vacationing in the Swedish Alps when an avalanche threatens to ruin their trip, and potentially a marriage.

Force Majeure doesn’t have a release date as of yet, look below for the press release.

The Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnolia Pictures announced today that they have acquired US rights to director Ruben Östlund’s FORCE MAJEURE, after its Un Certain Regard premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
 
FORCE MAJEURE tells the story of a Swedish family on a pleasant ski vacation in the French Alps. During a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, a looming avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, the mother shields her children. Meanwhile, the father grabs his iPhone and runs for his life. When the anticipated disaster fails to occur, a marriage hangs in the balance and family dynamics are upended in this wickedly funny psychodrama.
 
The film premiered at Cannes to critical acclaim, where it was awarded the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize. The Washington Post called it “stingingly clever and well executed, filmed with crystalline clarity and observant humor.”
 
“FORCE MAJEURE is a brilliantly executed razor of a film, hilarious, heartbreaking and absurd, and sometimes all at once. the post-movie dinner conversations should be very interesting,” said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles.
 
“I am very happy that Magnolia will bring my film to the US audiences and i really think that the content of FORCE MAJEURE is even more interesting in an North American context” said Ruben Östlund.