A bourgeois Swedish family – attractive thirtysomething parents (Johannes Kuhnke and Lisa Loven Kongsli) and their two young children – check in at a posh French ski resort for a five-day holiday in the snow. Early in the trip, the family is surprised by a terrifying but nonlethal avalanche during lunch. How the father reacts during those few snowblind seconds… read more!

After gently skewering Scandinavian masculinity in his intimate 2014 dramedy Force Majeure, writer/director Östlund expands his scope to explore the complexities of a changing Europe in The Square. Danish actor Claes Bang stars as the aptly-named Christian, the vain director of a contemporary art museum in Stockholm, whose mixed feelings about Sweden's lower castes – immigrants and the homeless, mostly –… read more!

Carl (Harris Dickinson) is the de facto protagonist of Triangle of Sadness, in that he is the only middle-class character in the film. A well-meaning if dull male model from England, Carl is told early on by a fashion mogul that he has a "triangle of sadness" – that is, a crease between his eyebrows – which, it is inferred,… read more!