TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
DRAMATIC FEATURE | 159 MINS | SWEDEN | DIRECTOR: RUBEN ÖSTLUND | PRODUCERS: ERIK HEMMENDORFF, PHILLIPE BOBER | BYRON PREMIERE
BBFF2022’s Opening Night Film
In Ruben Östlund’s wickedly funny Palme d’Or winner, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Celebrity model couple, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson). What first appeared instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.
Reviews
“The best movie involving a boat since “Titanic”… Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” is an energetic and wacky examination of class, gender norms and culture, woven into a dynamite script… Come for the discussion about who should pay the bill, stay for a boat crew that would put “Below Deck” to shame and fall in love with a new take on “Lord of the Flies” that you won’t soon forget”
“ A wildly funny ‘Lord of the Flies’ for the era of the super-rich…a takedown of the super-rich aboard a superyacht that plays like Buñuel by way of the Farrelly brothers. A film that really goes there...it’s a wild ride and in many ways, it’s also the perfect comedy for our times….”
★★★★★
“Ruben Östlund won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2017 with his modern-art satire, The Square. Five years he returns to Cannes with another satire, Triangle of Sadness, and it’s even better”
