Ruben Ostlund’s social satire Triangle of Sadness won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, presenting the Swedish director with one of the most prestigious film awards for the second time.
Östlund won the highest Cannes award for his film The Square in 2017. The Triangle of Sadness, which features Woody Harrelson as captain of a Marxist yacht and the climax of unbridled vomiting, pushes satire even further.
“We wanted after the screening [for people] “Let’s go out together and have something to talk about,” Jostlund said.
“We all agree that the unique thing about cinema is that we watch together. So we have to keep something to talk about, but we also have to have fun and have fun. ”
The awards were selected by a nine-member jury chaired by French actor Vincent Lyndon and presented at a closing ceremony at the Grand Lumiere Theater in Cannes on Saturday.
The jury’s second prize, the grand prize, was shared between Lucas Dont’s tender children’s drama “Close” and director Claire Dennis’s romantic thriller “Stars at Noon.”
Earlier, Korean star Song Kan-ho won the Best Actor award for his role in Japanese director Hirokazu’s film Kore-eda Broker, which tells the story of a Korean family looking for a home for an abandoned baby.
“I would like to thank everyone who appreciates Korean cinema,” said Song, who also starred in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes three years ago.
Best Actress was awarded to Zar Amir Ebrahimi for her role as a journalist in Ali Abbasi’s The Holy Spider, a true crime thriller about a serial killer aimed at sex workers in the Iranian religious city of Mashhad. Violent and graphic, Holy Spider was not allowed to shoot in Iran and was instead made in Jordan. Accepting the award, Ebrahimi said the film portrayed “everything that is impossible to show in Iran.”
Swedish-Egyptian director Tariq Saleh took the best screenplay in Cannes for “Boy from Paradise”, a thriller set in the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo.
Saturday’s closing ceremony concludes with Cannes trying to revive the annual extravaganza in France, which was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic and saw modest crowds last year. This year’s festival is also set against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, which sparked red carpet protests and dialogue for wartime cinema.
The Palme d’Or, one of the film’s most prestigious awards, is impossible to ignore, although bookmakers are still doing their best. This depends entirely on the jury’s deliberations, which are held in private. Last year, the French body horror thriller “Titan” won the award, making director Julia Decurno only the second female director to win a palm tree.
This year’s award for best first film, the Golden Chamber, went to Riley Kiow and Gina Gamel for War Pony, a drama about the Pine Ridge Reserve, made in collaboration with locals from Oglala Lakota and Sikangu Lakota.
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