Film

Triangle of Sadness

Name: Triangle of Sadness
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2022
Cast: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Woody Harrelson, Zlatko Burić

Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner skewers beauty, money and manners in three escalating acts: a model couple's transactional romance, a luxury cruise that curdles into disaster, then a desert island where survival skill quietly rewrites who's in charge. It's a slow-building comedy that turns genuinely vicious and viscerally gross. Best for anyone who enjoys watching the rich humiliated at length, in close-up, for a very long time.

TMDb rating

7.0

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