Triangle of Sadness

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT is a weeklong film series featuring a handful of the most exceptional films of 2022. This special event is designed for those who missed out on some of the best films of 2022, or those who simply want to relive the magic of these cinematic gems on the big screen. Over the course of a week, we'll take a journey through some of the most critically acclaimed and beloved films of last year.

3 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (Östlund) and Best Original Screenplay!

In Ruben Östlund's wickedly funny Palme d'Or winner, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Cinematic mischief-maker Ruben Östlund liberally applies his customary playfulness to the wide canvas of his wildly ambitious, frequently hilarious new film, which won the Swedish director his second Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Kicking off as a satirical romance, following the bickering, money-soured relationship between two attractive young models (Charlbi Dean and Harris Dickinson), the three-part film escalates into increasing absurdity after they are invited on a luxury cruise, where they rub elbows with the super-rich, as well as a disheveled and disillusioned, Marx-spouting sea captain (Woody Harrelson). To tell more would ruin the outrageously Buñuelian twists of this poison-dipped farce on class and economic disparity, which doesn’t skewer contemporary culture so much as dunk it in raw sewage. A troubling, gleefully misanthropic social satire, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS will, like Östlund’s FORCE MAJEURE, spark endless debate — and no doubt wreak havoc on the cruise industry.