‘Triangle of Sadness’ wins Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Fest
Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s social satire won top honours at the film festival
Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy ‘Triangle of Sadness’ won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, giving Ostlund one of cinema’s most prestigious prizes for the second time.
Ostlund, whose art-world send-up ‘The Square’ took the Palme in 2017, pulled off the rare feat of winning Cannes’ top award for back-to-back films. ‘Triangle of Sadness,’ featuring Woody Harrelson as a Marxist yacht captain and a climactic scene with rampant vomiting, pushes the satire even further.
Director Ruben Ostlund, Palme d’Or award winner for the film “Triangle of Sadness”Image Credit: Reuters
“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 awards were selected by a nine-member jury headed by French actor Vincent Lindon, and included Bollywood superstar Deepika Padukone and American actress Rebecca Hall, and were presented Saturday in a closing ceremony inside Cannes’ Grand Lumiere Theater.
The jury’s second prize, the Grand Prix, was shared between the Belgian director Lukas Dhont’s tender boyhood drama ‘Close,’ about two 13-year-old boys whose bond is tragically separated after their friendship is mocked by schoolmates, and French filmmaking legend Claire Denis’ ‘Stars at Noon,’ a Denis Johnson adaptation starring Margaret Qualley as a journalist in Nicaragua.
South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wookImage Credit: Reuters
The directing prize went to South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook (‘Oldboy,’ ‘The Handmaiden’) for his twisty noir ‘Decision to Leave,’ a romance fused with a police procedural.
