How to Watch ‘Triangle of Sadness’

Under deck meets titanic meets The White LotusThis is triangle of sadness. The satirical black comedy premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it received the Palme d’Or and an eight-minute standing ovation – the film festivals’ premier currency. To put that in context, elvis received a 12-minute standing ovation in Cannes, Colin Farrell’s forthcoming The Banshees by Inisherin received a 13-minute ovation and don’t worry darling set in with a 4-minute ovation.

triangle of sadness Stars Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean in her latest film role. The film’s writer-director Ruben Östlund is a Swedish filmmaker who has received critical acclaim (and accolades) for every film he’s made. Before taking up the camera, he worked at various ski resorts in the Swiss Alps, so something tells us he’s familiar with the neuroses of the super-rich.

What is “Triangle of Sadness” about?

The French title for this film, Without filter, translated means “Without Filter”, which might shed some light on what’s going on here. Yaya (Dean) and Carl (Dickinson), a celebrity model couple, are invited along with a Russian oligarch, an arms dealer and other Bezosian characters on a luxury cruise for the ultra-rich. Just as the wealthiest among us settle into their enormous superyacht, relax in the Greek sun, and call the staff together every three seconds, a storm rolls in, raining down on the parades of the One Percent, and from there chaos descends.

The film is a satire on wealth, class and privilege. As for the title, the triangle in question is actually a reference to the plastic surgery term used to describe the crease that forms between the brows (often fixed with a spritz or two of Botox). The entire film is a gutting of classicism and “appearing as capital” from top to bottom.

After the success of The White Lotusboth critically and in the zeitgeist, it’s clear that audiences are hungry for more, and not just looking to “eat the rich,” but to devour them.

How to watch Triangle of Sadness

To see this film, you have to venture to the one place the 1% would never go – your local movie theater. There’s no streaming date for this one just yet, but any “movie-like” film released towards the end of the year is likely to be aiming for awards-season recognition, and triangle of sadness is no different. That fact combined with the select theaters bit tells us that this film will likely be streamable by the end of the year.

For everyone who likes to sail the high seas, triangle of sadness hits select theaters on October 7th.

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