A Marriage Comes Crashing Down in First Trailer for Downhill, Starring Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The U.S. Force Majeure remake arrives on Feb. 14, 2020
Photo by Jaap Buitendijk/Fox Searchlight
The inciting incident of Ruben Östlund’s 2014 dark comedy Force Majeure—and of its forthcoming American remake, Fox Searchlight’s Downhill—is likely familiar to you, whether you’ve seen the Swedish original or not. A vacationing family, relaxing on the deck of a ski resort, suddenly find what looks like an avalanche bearing down on them—the father waves off the problem until the very last moment, then leaps to safety, leaving his wife and children to fend for themselves. The scene went viral over the summer, actually, with many on social media mistaking it for real footage.
Me watching a bad situation and doing nothing till the final hour: pic.twitter.com/C4HC58sD7y
— Dirty Diana (@zama_mdluli) June 4, 2019