Having won the Palme d’Or in 2017, it is no surprise that Ruben Östlund draws from other prizewinning directors like Michael Haneke and Roy Andersson. But you wouldn’t expect a Palme d’Or-winning director to find stylistic inspiration in skiing films and on YouTube. Mathias Bonde Korsgaard traces the unlikely origins of Östlund’s long-take style.
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Facts
- Screenplay: Mathias Bonde Korsgaard
- Production and editing: Jan Oxholm
Excerpts from (in order of appearance)
- The Square (2017), dir. Ruben Östlund.
- ”Swedish Director Freaks Out When He Misses Out On Oscar Nomination” (2015), Plattform Produktion.
- De ofrivilliga [Involuntary] (2008), dir. Ruben Östlund.
- Gitarrmongot [The Guitar Mongoloid] (2004), dir. Ruben Östlund.
- Play (2011), dir. Ruben Östlund.
- Turist [Force Majeure] (2014), dir. Ruben Östlund.
- Free Radicals 2 (1998), dir. Ruben Östlund.
- Sånger från andra våningen [Songs from the Second Floor] (2000), dir. Roy Andersson.
- Code Inconnu [Code Unknown] (2000), dir. Michael Haneke.
- ”Ruben Östlund – DVD Picks” (2015), Criterion Collection.
- ”Idiot Spanish busdriver almost kills students” (2006), treeboy1 ().
- ”Best Cry Ever” (2010), danike567.
- ”The Best Uses of Moving Images Have Happened on YouTube | Ruben Östlund | TIFF 2017” (2017), Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF Originals.
