10 Awesome Movie Scenes We Can't Stop Rewatching

Hot off the back of his last Palme d’Or win (for 2017’s The Square), Ruben Östlund again scooped up the coveted Cannes prize with his follow-up feature, Triangle of Sadness, which tears apart the pampered, privileged and deeply fragile lives of the ultra-rich via the medium of a disastrous superyacht sea voyage.

The film’s tipping point comes during the captain's dinner, which commences as the yacht passes through a violent storm. And if there is one scene that really sums up Triangle of Sadness, it is this.

Filmed at perpetually shifting canted angles, we are made to actively participate in the passengers' discombobulation as they gradually unspool, slipping from polite high society into what might, in a lesser film, be deemed toilet humour. Dinner becomes a nightmare of bodily fluids as guests vomit and experience bouts of diarrhoea in response to the ship’s movement and some janky seafood. And you know how it is; once one person goes, it’s hard not to follow. The storm tosses the ship to and fro, the sewage system floods the corridors, and the power goes out. And where is the captain (Woody Harrelson) during this? Debating the merits of communism vs capitalism with a rich businessman over the intercom.

A grand symphony of disaster, the scene is hysterically funny and, given the level of detail in its scatological elements, a gut-wrenching watch. But it's difficult not to come back for seconds.