FORCE MAJEURE
⋆⋆⋆½ out of four stars
Rating: R for some language and brief nudity. In subtitled Swedish and English.
Theater: Edina.

On a weeklong vacation in a spectacular ski resort in the French Alps, Swedes Tomas (Johannes Kuhnke) and Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) go downhill rather fast. They don't realize their marriage is about to descend a lot faster.

In Swedish director Ruben Östlund's brilliantly dark comedy, the imperfect couple move from holiday pleasure to discontent, exasperation and self-destructive conflict. Every discussion of a conflict magnifies it, revealing that the well-groomed pair are more bored and bitter than they have ever realized. He's a vile, selfish pig and she is frustrated to agony.

The film is beautifully made, with great visuals of the hotel's fine, loneliness-inflicting interiors, and mountain-high slopes where families don't talk to each other very much. This ongoing joke about faulty domestic manners grows larger and deeper scene by scene. That's not because bigger gags are exposed, but because the couple dig themselves continually into deeper problems.

The ending is the making of the movie, as the wounded couple's relationship is recast in an ironic new light. Kuhnke gives the sort of sly performance we see from SNL's Jason Sudeikis, making his character simultaneously unlikable and irresistibly laughable.
COLIN COVERT

GLEN CAMPBELL: I'LL BE ME
⋆⋆⋆½ out of four stars
Rating: PG for thematic elements and brief language.
Theaters: Brooklyn Center, Oakdale, Southdale.

"Cheerful" and "triumphant" aren't words that come to mind when you think of Alzheimer's, the debilitating illness that destroys memory, mind and body. But darned if country star Glen Campbell doesn't manage that in this moving documentary that follows him through the last halfway good year or so of his life. He was diagnosed in the spring of 2011. He hit the road later that year, a decision with the potential to tarnish his legacy.

Director James Keach sums up Campbell's career through clips of his concerts, his old TV show and his guest shots on "The Tonight Show," and interviews with scores of performers who put the seventy-something legend on a pedestal. He follows Campbell from his doctor's office to the Mayo Clinic. And Keach captures a 100-plus date farewell tour that was both a victory lap and an object lesson in the progression of Alzheimer's.

Art forger Mark Landis in “Art and Craft.”

Campbell himself is just inspiring. The public may have wearied of him 30 years ago, a hard-drinking womanizer who never measured up to the corny, wholesome, "gee whiz "image, something the film barely mentions. But onstage, laughing at the miscues he doesn't realize he's made, losing track of what he's supposed to be singing or doing, and then getting it back through his firmest memories — his hit songs — he is amazing to see.
ROGER MOORE, Orlando Sentinel

ART AND CRAFT
⋆⋆⋆½ out of four stars
Unrated
Theater: Edina.

For decades, art forger Mark Landis has persuaded 60 major U.S. museums to take his handcrafted fakes and hang them in their galleries. He's never asked for payment in return for the remarkably vivid classic copies. It's simply a pastime that appeals to Landis, a skilled counterfeiter who enjoys visiting art museum directors dressed as a priest or a wealthy collector with a genuine-looking donation to contribute. He's wonderfully examined in "Art and Craft," perhaps the year's most delightfully charming documentary.

A self-described "philanthropist," Landis, a clever fellow who is diagnosed with mental health issues, has found a way to live richly in his imagination. He works astonishingly fast to whip out skilled frauds, filling days that otherwise would be isolated and purposeless. He has made no secret of his practice for years, agreeing to this filmed portrait after dozens of newspapers published features on his remarkable career.

Some museums now welcome Landis as a skillful make-believe artist and urge him to create signature canvasses that he does not disguise as Picasso or Matisse. He prefers the prank nature of his odd hobby. So will viewers.
C.C.