Cannes 2022: 10 Films We Expect To See

If ever a director's feature filmography was platinum standard, it is Ruben Östlund's.

From somewhat humble roots filming skiing videos in the '90s, Östlund climbed the artistic ladder with a series of thought-provoking pictures from the mid-2000s to today, the second-last of which – existential skiing drama Force Majeure – won him the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes' 67th Edition; and the very last of which – 2017's multi-language artworld satire The Square – won him the Palme d'Or at Cannes' 70th Edition.

Following in the footsteps of such forebears as Roy Andersson and Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish director's work has style, substance and a philosophical underpinning that has, thus far, made it a cut above the vast majority of his contemporaries. Beyond the Palme d'Or, his slender body of work (five fiction features) has won or been nominated for just about every major global film award.

In a career first, Östlund's next feature Triangle of Sadness is purported to be in English, while nonetheless boasting an international cast that includes Woody Harrelson, Sunnyi Melles, Charlbi Dean and Harris Dickinson, the latter of whom popular cinema crowds will know from The King's Man, and the Cannes connoisseurs are more likely to recognise from The Souvenir Part II.

A dark comedy centering on a fashion model couple who are stranded on a desert island with a group of billionaires and a cleaning lady, their fight for survival promises the kind of social commentary Östlund is so at home in.