Ruben Östlund Will Likely Cement Himself as One of Comedy’s Premier Auteurs with Triangle of Sadness

Between Force Majeure and The Square, Sweden’s Ruben Östlund has already put himself in the upper echelons of comedy filmmaking, certainly a far cry from most comedies that come through your local multiplex. In fact, those are such high art/arthouse comedies that they don’t seem like they’re in a category all their own along with a handful of films from Wes Anderson, Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite), and Armando Iannucci (Death of Stalin).

Östlund’s latest offering, Triangle of Sadness, which nabbed the Cannes Film Festival’s highest honor, the Palme D’or, looks like it will be yet another benchmark setting comedy that’s so searing in its pin-prickly nuances about privilege and the blindest of blindspots for people that are the most out of touch. The trailer finally made its way online and Östlund set his sights for his ornate satire towards the 1% and the ultra-beautiful as opposed to toxic masculinity or the modern art world and it might be his boldest, most cutting work yet.

With that in mind, Östlund’s name should be far more renowned, especially when, Downhill, an English language remake of Force Majeure bombed in nearly every way and is one of the few voices in cinema that the Academy will have in the running during awards season.

See all of this for yourself in the first “delicious” official trailer of Triangle of Sadness, then get ready to buy tickets for wherever it’s playing on Oct. 7th.

Also, round of applause for the best movie poster in probably the last decade.