Triangle of Sadness

Triangle of Sadness

Models Carl and Yaya are invited for a luxury cruise with a rogues' gallery of super-rich passengers. At first, all appears Instagrammable, but the cruise ends catastrophically and the group find themselves marooned on a desert island.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Stars: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Woody Harrelson, Zlatko Burić, Henrik Dorsin, Iris Berben, Sunnyi Melles, Dolly de Leon, Vicki Berlin, Oliver Ford Davies, Jean-Christophe Folly, Amanda Walker, Hanna Oldenburg, Malte Gårdinger, Linda Anborg, Carolina Gynning, Arvin Kananian, Camilla Läckberg, Beata Borelius, Shaniaz Hama Ali, Alex Schulman, Amanda Schulman, Ralph Schicha, Timoleon Gketsos, Chris Westerstrom, Alicia Eriksson, Mira Uszkureit, Thobias Thorwid, Amanda Schulman, Alex Schulman, Jiannis Moustos, Stefan Gödicke, Nana Manu, Mia Benson, Elisabeth Falk
  • Director: Ruben Östlund
 Comments
  • ethanbresnett - 15 June 2024
    Solid if slightly overrated perhaps
    I have to commend Triangle of Sadness on the completely unexpected story and the strange avenues it took me down. I really wasn't expecting it to pan out the way it did which was such a real treat. It has a relatively meaty runtime but it doesn't feel like it, with it's story well mapped out and navigated. If you don't know anything of the story it's best to keep it that way so as to appreciate the series of events completely fresh. It will suffice to say that it contains a multitude of themes and genres and deals with them relatively well.

    I will say that I think the social commentary and satire isn't as well navigated as it could have been, and I have seen other films that have done it better, which is what lets this film down the most for me.

    In terms of the performances and characters I think this film shines, particularly Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean who both give spot on performances, often quite nuanced, sometimes bold, and always right on the money. The entire cast are all terrific with the characters all written perfectly.

    So ultimately this film is a blast, if maybe a tad overrated. The social commentary and satire is good but I do think it could have been stretched further, but the absurd story and great performances more than make up for this.
  • dguest-57663 - 16 April 2024
    Interesting, lively but too long
    Triangle of Sadness is not quite as good as you have been led to expect. There are enough 'best bits' to produce an enticing trailer, but the film itself is composed largely of each of those bits stretched out and stitched together to fill 140mins.

    In other words it is long and, in places, rather laboured. Its main point - to demonstrate how dreadful the rich are - is firmly established quite early on and reinforced at length and with caricatures throughout. The subsidiary themes that emerged - how vindictive the oppressed can be, for example - may have been a product of my weary imagination.

    Would I recommend it? Yes, it's an interesting and lively film. Would I go again? Perhaps, as long as I can retreat to the bar for the Captain's Dinner scene, which seemed to go on for ever.
  • masonfisk - 26 January 2024
    WE KID THE RICH, RIGHT...?
    Ruben Ostlund (Force Majeure/The Square) hit Oscar pay dirt (nominated for Best Picture) in this scabrous assault on the well to do from 2022. Opening up on an argument between two pretty people aka models played by Charlbi Dean & Harris Dickinson ends up in a reprieve on a luxury yacht trip populated by other upper echelon one percenters where the trip is pretty much what you expect as the rich treat their servants (the yacht staff) like so many playthings to be waited on hand & foot but things change as a violent storm makes a hoity dinner into a pukefest further complicated by a shanghai attempt by some armed pirates which causes an explosion sending a small passel to a nearby island to safety. Now the reduced survivors are further upended when one of the cleaning staff, Dolly De Leon, assumes control (since she knows how to hunt & forage & has access to the rescue boat she escaped in) even using Dickinson as a sex slave (in an exchange for food) which becomes dicey as Dean has become jealous over the whole thing but not above still snacking on the pretzels she gets. Running 2 ½ hours one could say the material may've been stretched a bit too far for the target it's attacking but the humor is so pointed & aimed where it should be you may excuse Rostund's excesses & just shake your head in bemusement. Also starring Woody Harrelson as the besotted captain w/Pusher trilogy heavy, Zlatko Buric, as a Russian oligarch who specializes in waste.
  • rich-mac - 11 January 2023
    Triangle of Sadness isn't a comedy, it's a farce
    I find it increasingly the case that watching trailers is detrimental to my enjoyment of the movie.

    I did anticipate that I was going to really enjoy Triangle of Sadness. Unfortunately for me the movie doesn't match the hype, the short highlights the trailer offered turned out to be misleading. Sadly, Triangle of Sadness isn't a comedy, it's a farce.

    There are a few funny scenes bordering on slapstick, and we see a bunch of rich people behaving badly (which seems to be a theme lately) but it's all too hard to take in the end - way too long, and not enough of a payoff.

    At times it felt unstructured, like the script was merely a guide, but there wasn't enough material to work with.

    For me this movie died like a drunk comedian who's forgotten his lines. I often see a cynical 'why was this movie made?' in reviews - this time I have to ask the question - was it just so they could have a junket on a luxury motor yacht?
  • volo-64304 - 5 January 2023
    A very naive film, simplistic and phony
    When you go to watch a film that received the Palme d'Or you are justified to expect a certain level of quality, of profundity, of acting. In the case with Triangle of Sadness, it turned out to be a disappointment on all three accounts. But most importantly, it turned out to be a very fake film, a film that's brimful of false and unreal conceptions of things it's supposed to deride. It feels like Ruben Östlund didn't do his homework properly either on fashion world, or on luxury cruises or on the rich. And he was also too busy with directing to think through the film's ending which results in a big question mark after the credits start rolling. Apparently, the judges at the Cannes also didn't know any better, or maybe the competition was really weak. The Russian war in Ukraine shows just how dangerous it can be to have such distorted perceptions of realities on the ground. A simple example: Russian oligarchs look and behave nothing like the goofy affable guy presented in the film. Östlund could have just googled the Russian Forbes list. But no, for the Swedish director and his ilk their imagination is deemed far more important than reality. Regarding the cast, Dolly De Leon, Vicki Berlin and Woody Harrelson were superb in their roles. Although the same cannot be said about Harris Dickinson, whose performance was rather wooden. All in all, if Triangle is envisioned as a satire of the rich and social injustices in our society, then the rich and social injustices in our society can be more than certain of their sustainable future.
  • alex-ramage - 1 January 2023
    Really?
    It's not very good. Patched together screenplay. Continuity is flawed continuously (German woman - stroke survivor) changes paralysis side from her first scene. Too long and the Animal Farm message was lost early on. No plot geography references other than Cuba. I understand that it might appear as a metaphor as an interpretation of our global society but it is confusing and misses the intended mark. Many contributors made for a big budget project. Cast performances were hilariously inept other than the opening two characters- were they meant to be......? - Too much money and not enough creativity = this. I hope you enjoy the movie and prove me wrong.
  • tcbayliss - 28 December 2022
    As pretentious as the "premise" of the movie.
    The title says it all. It's genuinely a shock this has made it to any screen, let alone achieve a rating that even remotely hinted as time worth spending watching. Clearly IMDB is not such a trustworthy source for good material as first thought!

    What was the goal here exactly? What were they trying to achieve in making this? It does not resonate with one single emotion of mine.

    And before any mindless defense of what can only be described as 120 minutes of numbness, I of course understood and recognized the social commentaries throughout ... the amateur, unfunny and sickly social commentaries. Genuinely a swing and a miss in the biggest ways.

    If you like this, you're a simpleton.

    Yikes.
  • iozappa - 23 December 2022
    Boring, too long movie with a superficial script
    Like many contemporary movies "Triangle of sadness" suffers from bad scriptwriting. It is divided into three parts, of which the only interesting (yet also flawed) one is the last one (with an unsatisfactory ending). The way too long first part comprises mostly insipid, irrelevant dialogues between a young male model and his social media influencer girlfriend.

    The second one shows the two on a cruise ship in the company of the rich and again a way too long vomiting film portion and some superficial communist/socialist vs capitalist cliche exchange between the new Russian and the captain plus a list of the sins of the US interventions abroad start suggesting us that the movie is supposed to be a satire.

    The third part is the most interesting, where a half-dozen passengers get stranded on an island after having been attacked by African pirates. Here the tables are turned by a Filipino toilet cleaner, the only one in possession of survival skills. One of the survivors is black, in shorts and wearing a Jordanian scarf (red instead of black which is Palestinian). He's taken for a pirate and accuses his accuser of racism while confessing later he's a pirate. He says some words in French at a certain moment, which no Somali pirate would know so theoretically the pirates were from the Gulf of Guinea ...

    The Filipino toilet cleaner is actually the funniest and most interesting character of the movie and the scriptwriter should've compressed the first two parts in max 30 minutes and rewritten the third one with more meat.

    The scene showing the Russian taking the jewels off the wrists and the neck of his deceased wife is most likely taken from French connection 2.

    I mostly write reviews only when I'm frustrated that bad movies get much attention and high scores.
  • swalker-17305 - 18 December 2022
    Literally despised the movie
    I made it through about 2/3 of the movie before giving up. I was waiting for brilliance and found none. I was waiting for humor and found none. The slow start turned into a slow plodding personal rant on the virtues of socialism. I one point I thought I was watching Gosford Park at sea as it had the same pace and feel. Then we moved to the really bad hate the rich part that had me longing for the horror movie I almost chose. And finally, the Lord of the Flies segment did me in.

    The acting was ok, but wasted.

    The reason I despise the movie the the nearly 2 hours I wasted before turning away and checking email.
  • lasttimeisaw - 15 December 2022
    Cinema Omnivore - Triangle of Sadness (2022) 7.7/10
    "Privilege and entitlement gets ridiculously emetic during the Captain's dinner on a turbulent night. Östlund makes a splendid feast of bodily excretion, whose enormity is drolly exaggerated (Melles, who plays Dimitry's champagne-quaffing wife, makes for a terrific barfing artist), and the camera's simulation inside a wobbling ship can really cause some nauseating effect in conjunction with the massive gross-out emission. Meanwhile the Captain and Dimitry's crapulous crosstalk about an American Marxist and a Russian capitalist is amusing but too on the nose to be comfortably riveting, and it drags too long, which makes the part where pirates attack the yacht like a cheesy and half-baked plot device. The entire second act could've benefited from truncation for a more smooth viewing."

    read my full review on my blog: Cinema Omnivore, please google it, thanks.