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For this Special Thursday Cinema Night, first up is Force Majeure (2014), a Swedish family drama-black-comedy-satire about a family vacationing in the Alps, when suddenly, they find themselves caught in an avalanche, and the dad acts in a cowardly manner that shames his wife and children. An examination of masculinity ensues in both dramatic and darkly comic fashion, in keeping with the style of director Ruben Ostlund, the guy behind Triangle of Sadness (2022) and The Square (2017), the latter of which we previously watched. Great reviews for this, so let’s check it out.
After that is The Birdcage (1996), a musical farce starring Robin Williams as a gay Jewish drag club owner whose straight adoptive son is getting married, and is bringing his fiancee’s parents to visit. Uh-oh, they turn out to be right-wingers, and so Williams and his partner must pretend to be straight in their presence. Hilarity and misunderstandings ensue. This was a big hit at the box-office in 1996, and Letterboxd seems to love it. Director is Mike Nichols, the guy behind such classics as The Graduate (1967) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
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Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- Force Majeure: https://letterboxd.com/film/force-majeure-2014/
- The Birdcage: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-birdcage/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- Force Majeure: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/30906
- The Birdcage: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/11584
CWs for Force Majeure:
- Gaslighting.
- Jump scares.
- Vomiting.
- Spitting.
- Misophonia.
- Explosions.
- Anxiety attacks.
- Suicidal ideation.
- Avalanche.
CWs for The Birdcage:
- Child abandonment.
- Stalking.
- Alcohol abuse.
- Prostitution.
- Pedophilia: the prostitute is underage.
- Shaving.
- Someone struggles to breathe.
- Sexualization of minor.
- Natural bodies of water.
- Clowns.
- Razors.
- Outing of LGBT person.
- Anxiety attacks.
- Suicidal ideation.
- Body dysphoria.
- Body dysmorphia.
- Jump scares.
- Screaming.
- Profanity.
- Someone is watched without their knowledge.
- Homophobic slurs.
- Antisemitism.
- “Man in a dress” jokes.
- Misgendering.
- Fat jokes.
- Misrepresentation of minority.
- Hate speech.
- Discussion of religion.
- Objectification of men.
- Sex.
- Male character ridiculed for crying.
- Anti-abortion themes.
- Honking horns.
- Screeching tires.
Links to movies:
- Force Majeure: https://tankie.tube/w/kBYxsxzTNDrptG34zbUWen
- The Birdcage: https://tankie.tube/w/wVPLhBsVfJMMN4Aqs4WYeo