Filmmaker Ruben Östlund has no problem making audiences uncomfortable. His film Force Majeure looks at the aftermath of an apparent avalanche when one husband and father’s gut reaction is to grab his phone and keys and run rather than protect his family. The Square, in addition to tackling the often pretentious nature of art, examines…
A fetish filmmaker, Nicolas Winding Refn, has established his name through the neon-tinged set films like “Drive” and “The Neon Demon.” But initially Danish director rose to fame by capturing the criminal underground of Copenhagen in the “Pusher” trilogy. When the pandemic prevented him from traveling outside his home country to work, he returned to…
Ruben Östlund | Writer, Director Filmmaker Bios Ruben Östlund was born in 1974 and grew up on an island on the West Coast of Sweden. He studied at the University of Gothenburg where he met Erik Hemmendorff with whom he later founded Plattform Produktion. An avid skier, Östlund directed three ski films, alluding to his…
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