As a group of old friends gather in a remote hotel for a birthday dinner, a storm approaches in more ways than one.

I love a good farce, a genre that is often dismissed by people who don’t understand how difficult it is to make something like that fly.

Josephine Bornebusch throws in everything but the kitchen sink, and finds a lot of help from the cast, including Henrik Dorsin as an unreasonably kindhearted taxi driver… but it’s not funny or clever enough, with mere chaos instead of novel ideas.

2026-Sweden. 101 min. Color. Widescreen. Written and directed by Josephine Bornebusch. Cast: Gustaf Skarsgård (Filip), Aliette Opheim (Caroline), Filip Berg (Ossi), Josephine Bornebusch (Kina), Gizem Erdogan, Jonas Karlsson, Johan Rheborg, Christopher Wagelin, Henrik Dorsin. 

Trivia: Original title: Stormen.