No filter: Did you like Palme d’Or? The director’s other films are available for streaming

Ruben Östlund’s No Filter, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2022, will be released in our cinemas this Wednesday. Known for making shocking films, disturbing the public and taking them out of the loop, Ruben Östlund quickly established himself as an essential director.

A keen observer of society and its customs, Ruben Ostlund has become a hair-trigger of auteur cinema and a regular at the Cannes Film Festival. Coinciding with the theatrical release of Sans Filtre, the MUBI platform is taking the opportunity to program two films by the Swedish screenwriter, director, editor and producer.

Snow Therapy, also known as Force Majeure, is the first film that brought Ruben Östlund to international attention. In 2015, the film selected in the Not Certain Points category of the Cannes Film Festival rocked the Croisette. He also received the Jury Prize.

A true horror comedy, Snow Therapy (2014) questions patriarchy in our Western societies before the MeToo revolution. The film shows a couple vacationing in the mountains with their children. While the avalanche goes straight to the terrace of the restaurant where the family is set up, the husband jumps in to save Kan’s skin without even thinking about the family. Behavior that causes a break in a couple.

Three years later, in 2017, Ruben Östlund returned even stronger with The Square, which earned him his first Palme d’Or. This time, the director worries the world of modern art and the Swedish bourgeoisie with a sharp satire. Its main character, Christian (Cless Bunge), is a curator of a museum of modern art, whose humanistic values ​​are undermined in the course of several events that take on a disproportionate scale and disrupt his entire life.

Snow Therapy (or Force Majeure) and The Square, two satires currently available on MUBI