Triangle of Sadness

A scathing stab at class divides.

The title doesn’t effectively sell how chaotically funny and eviscerating Ruben Ostlund’s social satire is.

He makes astute observations about small social niceties, but he pushes every awkward situation to the point where viewers gasp and wince.

There’s an interesting cast of mostly unknown actors (Harrelson excepted) and the film is very well staged. Maybe the Cannes accolade was a bit on the generous side, though.

For Östlund, subtlety is overrated. Triangle of Sadness shows us why he has a point. It’s a spectacular demolition of modern life, a disruptor movie full of ideas and nuance, as violent in its way as a Pieter Bruegel painting.

Triangle of Sadness doesn’t leave audiences with much to unpack thematically, but it’s clear-eyed and hilarious about the systems that enforce societal inequities and what might happen if they were ever to unravel.

I found it to be far too obvious and much too long&#59; it's nowhere near as searing and subtle as Östlund's 'Force Majeure,' which had an emotional sting.

As was the case with Force Majeure (and not so much the case with The Square), Triangle of Sadness is funny, at times outrageously so.

It’s a wild satire of the mega-wealthy and the people who serve them.

'Triangle of Sadness' kicks up the wild meter and delivers a more narratively scattered work [compared to Östlund’s previous films]. Still, it hangs in the mind and is intelligent filmmaking.