In just over a decade, Ruben Östlund has established himself as one of the new Cannes masters, leapfrogging from sidebar to sidebar—2011’s Play debuted in Directors’ Fortnight, 2014’s Force Majeure was selected for Un Certain Regard—before jumping to the Competition, which he won at first strike with 2017’s art-world satire The Square.
This year he returns with Triangle of Sadness, starring Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean and Woody Harrelson. The Swedish director cheerfully offers to tell Deadline everything—even the ending—but this is a director whose films are less about plot than they are about people, and his latest subject, the fashion world, suggests plenty of food for his dark thoughts.DEADLINE: How does it feel going back to Cannes as a Palme d’Or winner?
Does that make you nervous about going back into competition?RUBEN ÖSTLUND: I’m not nervous to go back in, but I was very nervous waiting for the decision.
That was really nerve-racking. And now I’m just happy and relieved that we are in Competition, and I’m looking forward so much to showing the film to an audience.
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