Carl and Yaya, models and influencers, are invited to take a cruise on a luxury yacht in the company of a billionaire clientele for whom the crew members cater to the slightest whim. Until the day when a storm rises…
Posted at 8:30 a.m.
Ruben Östlund’s new rant has nothing to do with the amiable film. It’s as if, pushing the envelope even further than in force majeure and The Square, his two previous feature films, the most recent member of the select club of double winners of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival had allowed himself to open all the valves to pour a torrent of mud on today’s world. It can be funny, it can even serve as an outlet. It is certain, however, that this long eructation of 150 minutes, which hammers its message with heavy blows of a club, could as well be appreciated with enthusiasm by some as violently rejected by others.
To tell the truth, the general impression that this full-throttle charge leaves on the elites is that the Swedish filmmaker has just delivered his own jester timein a more luxurious and more trash. From the top of his cloud, Pierre Falardeau would certainly not deny this spectacular way of illustrating the abyssal chasm that continues to widen between the ultra-rich and those who try to earn a living as best they can. By denouncing in passing the immoral character that results from it. But was the outrageous scatology in which the staging falls the best way to demonstrate it? The debate has begun.
If the manner is debatable (the spectators finding the vomit scenes unbearable – Monty Python register – will have to practically close their eyes during the entire second part of the film!), however, it is necessary to recognize the power of this story divided into three acts. Harris Dickinson and the late Charlbi Dean excel in the roles of two young influencers finding themselves on a luxury cruise in the midst of billionaires who are denied nothing, not even their dystopian vision of the world. Too bad that the final act, during which the roles are reversed after a shipwreck on a desert island, turns out to be too stretched and less mastered on the narrative level than the two previous ones.
It should also be remembered that this very scathing satirical comedy won, not without a hint of controversy, the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. The discussions must have been very animated within the jury…
Triangle of Sadness (Without filter in French version) is currently showing in its original version with French subtitles. The French-dubbed version hits theaters October 28.
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satirical comedy
Triangle of Sadness (VF: Without filter)
Ruben Ostlund
With Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean and Woody Harrelso
2:30 a.m.