Triangle of Sadness: Bitter satire about a model couple on a luxury cruise who experience their blue wonder when the steamer sinks after a pirate attack.
Film plot and background
Bitter satire about a model couple who experience their blue miracle on a luxury cruise when the steamer sinks after a pirate attack.
Carl (Harris Dickinson) and his girlfriend Yaya (Charlbi Dean Kriek) have only been together for a short time, but their beauty already brings them the most lucrative offers thanks to their modelling jobs. They are invited on a luxury cruise; after all, their presence is more important than the money.
On the spot, they not only get to know the quirks and characteristics of the super-rich better, but also come across the captain and convinced Marxist Thomas Smith (Woody Harrelson), who would prefer to have nothing to do with the guests and get drunk in his cabin. Under his leadership, not only does the Captain’s Dinner descend into absolute chaos, but when pirates capture the ship, it finally sinks. Only a few of the passengers are able to escape to a deserted island – among them Carl and Yaya. In the end, however, they realise that the luxury goods are of little use to them in this situation and that the cleaning lady in the toilets, Abigail (Dolly De Leon), who is the only one who can cook and fish, becomes the most important person in the new community.
“Triangle of Sadness” – background, cast, theatrical release
The big winner of the Palme d’Or 2022 in Cannes is “Triangle of Sadness”. For the second time after “The Square”, Swedish director Ruben Östland thus received the greatest honour at the renowned film festival on the Côté D’Azur.
With stars like Harris Dickinson (“The King’s Men”), Woody Harrelson (“Zombieland”), Iris Berben (“First Name”), Zlatko Buric (“Pusher” trilogy) and Sunnyi Melles (“Enfant Terrible”), the satire has a top-class cast down to the smallest role. Filming was delayed by several months due to the corona pandemic. Among other things, filming took place on Jackie Kennedy’s former luxury yacht, Christina O.
The German theatrical release of “Triangle of Sadness” is on 13 October 2022.
