Programmed November 2021

Discomfort Zone: Three Films by Ruben Östlund

Featuring a new introduction by the filmmaker Swedish provocateur Ruben Östlund—who has made waves in recent years with his art-house sensations Force Majeure and the Palme d’Or–winning The Square —began his career with these three fearlessly unflinching studies of uneasy social dynamics, codes of masculinity, and the tension between the group and the individual. Chronicling the oddities and contradictions of human behavior through an almost anthropologically detached, yet quietly caustic lens, they display the evolution of a major filmmaker who has grown to become one of contemporary cinema’s most consistently intriguing and incendiary auteurs.

Still watchable end to end