The provocative satire on beauty, appearance and money that tells the story of two advertising models who embark on a luxury cruise ship that later capsizes won the Cannes Palme d’Or, the highest recognition of the contest.
It is the film Triangle of Sadness, by the Swedish director Ruben Ostlundwho five years ago took home the same award for his caricature of the contemporary art world in The Square.
Östlund is a born provocateur, exaggerated and hyperbolic when he picked up a Palme d’Or that fits him like a glove: as it was a special edition, Chopard had filled it with glittering and ostentatious diamonds.
YOU CAN SEE: IU shines at the Cannes Film Festival with ‘Broker’: check out the photos and videos from the red carpet
“Triangle of Sadness is rounder than The Square and in its central chapter, which takes place on a luxury cruise ship, it unfolds some of the funniest moments in recent cinema. Östlund’s anti-everything sprawl convinced the jury, but divided the critics, who either abhorred her or indulged in her unbridled mockery of luxury, fashion, political correctness, culture wars and class warfare. A chaotic society, disoriented and without a filter that reminds us of the shipwreck towards which we are heading”, gave their opinion yesterday in the virtual edition of El País.
Meanwhile, El Mundo wrote that “Ruben Östlund thus enters the select club made up of Alf Sjöberg, Haneke, the Dardenne brothers, Kusturica, Imamura, Loach, Coppola and Bille August with the most important award that the club is capable of. duplicate cinema.
South Korean Park Chan-wook, with Decision to Leave, won the award for best direction in this 75th edition of the famous festival. The plot features a high-ranking police officer who is tasked with investigating the mysterious death of a wealthy man. The victim’s wife (played by the Chinese Tang Wei, protagonist of Desire, danger by Ang Lee and Long journey into the night by Bi Gan) is emerging as a possible suspect, but the desire for love gets in the way of the investigation, which goes progressively becoming a bonfire of unresolved romantic tension.
YOU CAN SEE: Discover the brutal sexual horror film with Kristen Stewart that horrified in Cannes
The award for best actress went to the Iranian actress Tsar Amir Ebrahimi for her role as a tenacious journalist in the serial killer thriller Holy Spider. “This film talks about women, about their bodies. It is a film full of hate, hands, feet, breasts, sex, everything that is impossible to show in Iran”, she declared upon receiving the award. The film is a David Fincher-esque thriller set in the land of the mullahs. The filmmaker is inspired by a famous true case of a serial killer who killed 16 prostitutes in the holy city of Mashhad, in Iran, between 2000 and 2001.
Tsar Amir Ebrahimi grew up in Tehran, where he took drama courses. He became known thanks to series like ‘Help Me’ (2004) and ‘Nargess’ (2007). Her career was brutally interrupted in 2006 due to a sex scandal, forcing her to leave the country and settle in France. When she arrived in Paris, she didn’t speak any French. She learned it by herself and was doing small jobs.
“I have come a long way to get on this stage. It has not been easy, it has been humiliating, it has been lonely, but there was the cinema. There was darkness, but the cinema was there”, he said yesterday at the award ceremony.
#Satire #appearance #wins #Cannes