2022 · comedy · drama
Triangle of Sadness
Directed by Ruben Östlund2h 27m2022
A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.
Our read: Triangle of Sadness (2022) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- inventive
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