For a man whose first venture into filmmaking was a series of ski documentaries, Ruben Östlund has done very well. In just eight years, he took the Cannes Film Festival and then the international film world by storm, leading to the Swede’s first English-language film. triangle of sorrow, which earned him his second Palme d’Or in just five years. It has major Oscar hype right now.
His first palm appeared The space 2017, which also earned it an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2014 he won a jury prize for the contribution Un Certain Regard power of majority, A film that sparked so much conversation that Searchlight took over the remake rights and became the basis for it Downhill with Julia Louis Dreyfus and Will Ferrell.
Östlund participates in this week’s edition of my Deadline video series Behind the lens, where we talk about his incredible success at Cannes and everything that led to it – including this first film not in his native language. Of triangle of sadness He opened many new doors and talks about the inspiration for them and the socially important impetus that drives his filmmaking.
Click on the video above to watch our conversation.
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Author: Peter Hammond
Source: Deadline
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