Ruben Ostlund achieved the remarkable distinction of winning Cannes’ top prize for back-to-back films with Triangle of Sadness. The film, which stars Woody Harrelson as a Marxist boat skipper and features a climax scene with wild vomiting, takes parody even farther.Triangle of Sadness, a class warfare comedy directed by Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, received the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, awarding Ostlund a second time one of cinema’s most prestigious awards.
Ostlund, whose art-world parody The Square won the Palme d’Or in 2017, achieved the remarkable achievement of winning Cannes’ top prize for two consecutive years. Triangle of Sadness, starring Woody Harrelson as a Marxist yacht skipper and includes a climax scene with wild vomiting, takes the satire to a new level.“We wanted after the screening (for people) to go out together and have something to talk about,” said Ostlund. “All of us agree that the unique thing with cinema is that we’re watching together. So we have to save something to talk about but we should also have fun and be entertained.”
The honours were chosen by a nine-member jury led by French actor Vincent Lindon and given at the Grand Lumière Theater in Cannes on Saturday.Close, a sensitive boyhood drama about two 13-year-old boys whose friendship is cruelly severed after their intimacy is mocked by schoolmates, and Stars at Noon, a Denis Johnson adaption starring Margaret Qualley as a journalist in Nicaragua, shared the jury’s second prize, the Grand Prix.