Five years after The Square Ruben Östlund took away his second Palme d’Or from Cannes, along with a reputation as the filmmaker behind the wittiest film of this year’s competition. The tale of the young couple Carl and Yaya begins in the world of modelling while, for the second act, we move to a luxury cruise ship. Will the fierce storm which tosses the waves and the contents of their bloated stomachs liberate the super-rich passengers from the futility of their lives? Or will Östlund’s characters again behave like animals even in this extreme situation?
Five years after The Square, a caustic critique from the world of modern art, Ruben Östlund took away his second Palme d’Or from Cannes, along with a reputation as the filmmaker behind the wittiest film of this year’s competition. The tale of the young couple Carl and Yaya begins in the world of modelling, then we move to a luxury cruise ship. The super-rich are a rewarding target, while a satire which treats them in an artful manner is all the rarer. “I sell shit,” shouts one of the eccentric passengers, a jovial Russian oligarch, who made his fortune shifting fertiliser. Will the fierce storm which tosses the waves and the contents of their bloated stomachs liberate the moneyed passengers from the futility of their lives? Or will Östlund’s characters again behave like animals even in this extreme situation?
Martin Horyna
142 min / Color, DCP
Director Ruben Östlund
/ Screenplay Ruben Östlund
/ Dir. of Photography Fredrik Wenzel
/ Sound Andreas Franck, Bent Holm
/ Editor Ruben Östlund, Mikel Cee Karlsson
/ Art Director Josefin Åsberg
/ Production A Plattform Produktion
/ Coproduction Essential Films, Coproduction Office, Sveriges Television, ZDF/Arte, Arte France Cinéma, TRT Sinema
/ Cast Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean Kriek, Woody Harrelson, Zlatko Burić, Vicki Berlin, Henrik Dorsin, Jean-Christophe Folly, Iris Berben
/ Sales Coproduction Office
/ Distributor Aerofilms
Ruben Östlund (1974, Styrsö, Sweden). Selected filmography: The Guitar Mongoloid (Gitarrmongot, 2004), Involuntary (De ofrivilliga, 2008), Play (2011), Force Majeure (Turist, 2014), The Square (2017), Triangle of Sadness (2022).
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Zlatko Buric
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