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Ruben Ostlund’s second Palme d’Or winner, triangle of sadnessgets its name from a funny Swedish proverb that describes the wrinkles that form between a person’s eyebrows when they are worried or stressed.
“You get it when you’ve had a lot of problems in your life. But you can fix it with Botox in 15 minutes,” Östlund told Deadline about the ruling.
“It’s a term that comes from cosmetic surgery—not plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery—and I found it funny. Like a dark, weird comment about surface and beauty: our obsession with beauty and our obsession with appearance and our belief that our inner problems will be solved if we build a big shell around us.”
The term is explained in the movie’s opening moments, in which Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (the late Charlbi Dean), a famous model couple, are invited on a luxury cruise for the very rich, driven by a runaway boat. Captain (Woody Harrelson). What initially seemed Instagrammable ends disastrously, leaving the survivors stranded on a deserted island struggling to survive.
As Östlund described the plot: “We start in the fashion world, and then we’re on a luxury yacht, and then we end up on a deserted island – basically the film takes place in these three different settings.”
Released in the US by Neon in October, following its Cannes win and ahead of its Best Picture win at the European Film Awards, triangle of sadness also with Dolly De Leon, Zlatko Burić, Henrik Dorsin and Vicki Berlin. Östlund directed Picture, his first English-language feature, from his own script, with Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober as producers.
Read Östlund’s script below.
Author: Zac Ntim
Source: Deadline
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