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The Storm

The Storm

  • Sweden

Director Josephine Bornebusch
Cast Gustaf Skarsgård, Aliette Opheim, Filip Berg, Josephine Bornebusch, Jonas Karlsson, Johan Rheborg, Henrik Dorsin, Christopher Wagelin, Sara Shirpey, Gizem Erdogan
Genre Comedy

Filip is turning 45, and has invited his closest friends for dinner at his and his wife's lavish and newly bought farm estate up north in Sweden. What they don't know is that a ferocious storm is on its way and that they'll be trapped together. Their polished acts fall, and an unfiltered meltdown starts. When the panic starts to creep in and they all realise the seriousness of the situation, the farm starts to shrink, secrets spill out, and unexpected feelings take shape.

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What are critics saying?

80

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Storm is harrowing, provocative and deeply probing yet quite involving.

75

New York Post by Billy Heller

Following the start of the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in The Hague, the release here of the political thriller Storm couldn't be more timely.

70

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

For a political thriller, Storm is remarkably restrained. There are no flashbacks to the wars in the Balkans or to the atrocities in the hotel.

60

Time Out by Andrew Grant

Storm’s remarkable poignancy is made all the more palpable by its restraint.

50

Variety by Derek Elley

A potentially gripping legal thriller about what happens when Western Europe attempts to solve Central European problems ends up as dull entertainment in Storm.

40

Village Voice by Nicolas Rapold

The writing by director Hans-Christian Schmid (Requiem) and Bernd Lange is more stilted and righteous than even the U.N. environs, with its humanity-embracing procedural-speak, calls for.