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Involuntary
Involuntary
7.2
/10
1,778 Ratings

INVOLUNTARY

De ofrivilliga

Directed by Ruben Östlund
Sweden, 2008
Comedy, Drama

Synopsis

It’s almost summer in Sweden, minor misbehaviour abounds. Leffe likes to play pranks when he’s drinking. Meanwhile, a righteous school teacher doesn’t know where to draw the line. Then there are two teenage girls who like to party, but one night in a park, one of them is found passed out drunk.

Synopsis

It’s almost summer in Sweden, minor misbehaviour abounds. Leffe likes to play pranks when he’s drinking. Meanwhile, a righteous school teacher doesn’t know where to draw the line. Then there are two teenage girls who like to party, but one night in a park, one of them is found passed out drunk.

Our take

This blistering, award-winning second feature from Ruben Östlund would prove his breakthrough. Made up of a series of simmering, fixed-camera vignettes that crackle with self-contained moral dilemmas, Involuntary acutely exposes the fault lines in Swedish society’s carefully cultivated self-image.