Swedish director Ruben Ostlund won his second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this Saturday with “Triangle of Sadness,” a satirical comedy about today’s world and the most privileged classes.
After winning the top award in 2017 with “The square”, also a satire on contemporary art, the filmmaker returns to present a scathing look at the differences between the rich and the poor.
The 48-year-old filmmaker has joined the small group of directors who have two Golden Palms behind them, such as the Dardenne brothers and Ken Loach.
“Triangle of sadness” narrates the adventures of several passengers of a luxury cruise ship that have been shipwrecked on a desert island.
“The entire jury was extremely shocked by this film,” said the president of the jury, French actor Vincent Lindon.
The Grand Prize, the second highest prize in the contest, went to “Close”, by Belgian director Lukas Dhont, about a broken friendship between two teenagers, ex aequo with “Stars at noon”, by French director Claire Denis, a romantic thriller set in Nicaragua.
Another film made by Belgians, the couple Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, received the Jury Prize, jointly with Pole Jerzy Skolimowski and his surprising “Eo”, starring a donkey.
In acting, the awards went to the Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi, for her role as a tenacious journalist in “Holy spider”, and the South Korean Song Kang-ho –-star of “Parasite”– for “Broker”, by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda.
