"An unsettling psychological thriller...visually stunning and emotionally perceptive." -Peter Debruge, Variety

"The movie to see and talk about if you want to experience the absolute best in contemporary cinema." -Kenneth Turan, LA Times

Sweden's Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film

A critical favorite and word-of-mouth sensation at this year's Cannes Film 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. Replete with bravura sequences--from the frighteningly realistic avalanche scene to the incredibly extended crying jag that teeters between harrowing and hilarious.