TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Q&A | TIFF 2022

“The team behind TRIANGLE OF SADNESS in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Ruben Östlund’s latest Palme d’Or–winning satire explores hypocrisy, greed, and thirst for power amongst the idle rich (and the luxury-cruise industry). The 47th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8 to 18, 2022. For more, visit . A satirist and provocateur, Swedish auteur Ruben Östlund — two-time winner of the Cannes’ Palme d’Or — relishes the controversial aspects of his work. He once joked that he was thrilled Sweden’s divorce rate skyrocketed after the release of his best-known film, Force Majeure. His latest, Triangle of Sadness, for which he won his second Palme, may be his most provocative work yet; it’s certainly his fiercest and funniest. The first of the film’s three chapters follows models Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean). Untroubled by self-awareness or decorum, they can barely get throu