10 Amazing Films From 2022 Nobody Is Talking About
4. Triangle Of Sadness
Receiving the Palme d’Or and an eight-minute standing ovation at this year’s Cannes Film Festival before arriving in UK cinemas in October, Triangle Of Sadness is the first English-language film from acclaimed Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund (The Square).
A biting satire taking aim at the social elite, the plot follows influencers and models Carl (Harris DIckinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean) invited on a lavish (and free) trip on a superyacht in exchange for social media coverage. Their fellow guests are super wealthy oligarchs, weapons manufacturers, and tech giants, all of whom are as ridiculously entitled as the rest. And with the crew instructed to obey every command from the passengers, it doesn’t take long for things to go horribly wrong – vomit and diarrhoea included.
Events only deteroriate from here when a disaster forces the billionaires to fend for themselves in a bizarre Lord Of The Flies scenario. But no matter how outlandish the script gets, Östlund never loses sight of his film’s satirical core which relishes in dismantling the hierarchies of class and power.
Moreover, Woody Harrelson’s performance as the incredibly intoxicated captain is the cherry on top of this darkly comic social commentary.