Watch a Home-Wrecking Avalanche in an Exclusive Clip From 'Force Majeure'

If you thought Gone Girl made for an awkward date-night movie, just wait until you see Force Majeure. The critically beloved Swedish comedy-drama (and potential Best Foreign Language Film contender) starts out with an innocent enough premise, as a seemingly chipper family of four traipse out to the French Alps for a skiing holiday. But just as their vacation is getting underway, it’s interrupted by a terrifying avalanche — an exclusive clip of which you can see above — that prompts dad (played by Johannes Kuhnke) to run away from the rest of his family. Thankfully, everyone survives the snow. But the father’s act of self-preseveration upends the entire trip, prompting he and his increasingly frustrated wife (Lisa Loven Kongsli) to painfully and hilariously re-examine their entire marriage.

If that sounds drab, don’t worry: Force Majeure is full of hilariously observed, brutally honest comedic moments that expertly call out the awkwardness and pettiness that are inherent (and inevitable) in all long-term relationship; at times, it plays like a hybrid of Larry David and Ingmar Bergman. As director Ruben Ostlund told the New York Timesearlier this month, he had two goals for the film:  “One is to create the most spectacular avalanche in film history. The other is to increase the rate of divorce.” Whether he achieved the latter is yet to be seen, but as the above clip proves, he certainly succeeded in captured the wonder (and terror) of a slow-moving, ever-intensifying force that envelops everything it encounters — which, when you think about, isn’t a bad metaphor for marriage itself.

Force Majeure opens Oct 24.