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TRIANGLE OF SADNESS

Genre
Comedy and Drama
Running time
142 minutes
Year
2022
Language
English
Country
Sweden, France, Germany, United Kingdom and United States of America (USA)
Director
Ruben Östlund
Bio
Producer
Philippe Bober, Erik Hemmendorff
Cast
Harriss Dickinson, Zlatko Burić, Woody Harrelson, Charlbi Dean, Thobias Thorwid
Scriptwriter
Ruben Östlund
Swedish satirist Ruben Ostlund joined a very exclusive club of two-time Cannes Palme d'Or winners with this scathingly hilarious saga of class, power and seasickness. The grotesquely rich passengers on a luxury cruise ship spend their days snapping at their young, eager crew – who are white, bright and beautiful – while an unseen host of brown-skinned workers toil invisibly in the galley and engine room. Meanwhile, the depressed captain (Woody Harrelson) drinks himself into oblivion in his cabin. The tables turn suddenly, however, when pirates invade the ship. The passengers who make it to a desert island are suddenly entirely reliant on the survival skills of a worker from below decks, who isn't inclined to indulge them. The oppressed is all too ready to take a turn as the oppressor. Wild, outsize, brash and clever, Ostlund's Odyssey lets nobody off the hook.

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