Eat the rich and barf ‘em up with the trailer for Triangle Of Sadness
Swedish provocateur Ruben Östlund’s latest puts the wealthy on a yacht with a serious plumbing problem
Ruben Östlund knows how to make an impression. The director of such precision satires as Force Majeure and The Square, Östlund knows how to get under people’s skin and stay there, laying eggs of discomfort that hatch, grow, and die in the viewer’s body, staying with them long after the credits roll. Usually, he does it with a whole movie. For the director’s latest, the Palm d’Or-winning Triangle Of Sadness, he only needs a poop, puke, and pee-filled trailer to get his point across.
Triangle Of Sadness follows a luxury yacht and its beautiful, wealthy passengers. Ostensibly a satire about the world of modeling and fashion, Sadness gets the characters aboard the ship and dumps, well, dump on them, literally. After their ridiculous requests are met with a smile and a “yes” from the staff, all hell and all bowels break loose. Those with seasickness might want to stay home because the swaying camera is going to make that human waste any more palatable.