Cannes Film Festival: Swede Ruben Östlund wins a second Palme d’Or with “Triangle of sadness” – Le Monde

Swedish director and screenwriter Ruben Östlund poses with the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for the film “Triangle of Sadness”, won on May 28, 2022. LOIC VENANCE / AFP The 75th Cannes Film Festival has chosen shine of corrosive and political laughter by offering a second Palme d’Or to Ruben Östlund, for Triangle of sadness (Without filter, in French), his acid satire of the super-rich and class relations in Western societies. This crossing of Titanic and La Grande Bouffe succeeds Titane by Frenchwoman Julia Ducournau, winner of the previous edition. Read also: Cannes 2022, live: the Palme d’Or awarded to Ruben Östlund for “Triangle of sadness”, Claire Denis and Lukas Dhont share the Grand Prize Five years after The Square, his feature film on the middle of the contemporary art which was in the same vein, the 48-year-old Swedish director has not calmed down. This time he denounces, through caricature and excess, the excesses of the society of appearance and capitalism. He joined the webbed doubles club, alongside the Dardenne brothers, Ken Loach and Michael Haneke. “We had only one goal: to make a film that interests the public and makes them think by provoking”, declared Ruben Östlund when receiving his award. “As in a conversation between friends, we can laugh by addressing important subjects, I find that we can make an entertaining cinema by talking about serious subjects”, he assured in a press conference, after the winners . Spectators will not soon forget the scene of general seasickness, with deluges of vomit and excrement, during dinner on a sinking boat, or the battle of quotes between the captain, communist, and a Russian oligarch . “The whole jury was extremely shocked by this film”, recognized the president of the jury, Vincent Lindon. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers Vincent Lindon, president of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival: “I like films that tell a state of the world” Wash away the “humiliations” Beyond the Palme d’Or, the jury where including Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), the Indian Deepika Padukone, and the directors Asghar Farhadi and Ladj Ly, gave its second most prestigious distinction (Grand Prix) ex aequo to the Frenchwoman Claire Denis, 76, (Stars at Noon) but especially to a young talent, Lukas Dhont, 31 years old. With Close, his second film, the Belgian tackles questions of identity and the weight of masculinity with sensitivity, and reveals an actor, Eden Dambrine, 15, on stage alongside him. The latter saw the interpretation prize escape him, in favor of the South Korean star Song Kang-ho, the father in Parasite, this time rewarded for The Good Stars of Japanese Kore-eda. Read also: Lukas Dhont back in Cannes: “It was to be able to move my mother that I became a filmmaker” On the women’s side, the jury distinguished a courageous career marked by “humiliations”, that of the Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi , for his role as a journalist investigating murders of prostitutes committed in the name of God, in the thriller The Nights of Mashhad. Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi receives the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award from Guillaume Canet on May 28, 2022. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP “This film is about women, about their bodies. It is a film filled with hatred, hands, feet, breasts, sexes, everything that is impossible to show in Iran,” said the one who saw her career in Iran brutally interrupted because of a sex scandal, which pushed her to leave her country for France. Read also: Article reserved for our Cannes 2022 subscribers: Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti and Zar Amir Ebrahimi, three Iranian women on the red carpet Belgium in the foreground Belgium is one of the winners of the Festival: in addition to Lukas Dhont, the Dardenne brothers , champions of social cinema, received a Special Prize for this 75th anniversary edition, for Tori and Lokita, a social drama about young exiles, and the Flemish couple Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen (Les Huit Montagnes) received the Jury Prize, tied with the UFO of the competition, EO (“Hi Han”), animalist manifesto on a donkey, directed by a figure of Polish cinema, Jerzy Skolimowski. And if the war in Ukraine was not forgotten during this Festival, opened with a message of resistance addressed, from kyiv, by the Ukrainian president Zelensky, and which programmed several Ukrainian filmmakers, the Russian Kirill Serebrennikov left empty-handed . Having become the standard-bearer of Russian art in exile, the filmmaker breaking with the regime had for the first time been able to travel to the Croisette to personally defend one of his films in competition, Tchaikovsky’s Wife. See also: The Cannes Film Festival seen by photographer Audoin Desforges Out of competition, the Festival also wanted to make the public dream by inviting the mega star Tom Cruise, who came to present the new Top Gun, and the new darling of Hollywood, Austin Butler , in the role of Elvis Presley for the biopic event of the “King”. Two films on which the cinema industry is counting on to bring the crowds back to theaters, after two years of health crisis. The complete prize list of the 75th Cannes Film Festival The Palme d’Or is awarded to Swedish director Ruben Östlund for Triangle of Sadness (Without filter); by French director Claire Denis; The Special Prize for this 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is awarded to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for Tori and Lokita; The Director’s Prize is awarded to South Korean director Park Chan-wook for Decision to Leave; The Jury Prize is awarded equally to Le Otto Montagne (Les Huit Montagnes), by Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix Van Groeningen, and Eo (Hi-Han) by Jerzy Skolimowski; The Screenplay Prize is awarded to the Swedish Tarik Saleh for Boy from Heaven;The Best Actor Award goes to Song Kang-ho, starring in the Japanese film Les Bonnes Etoiles, by Hirokazu Kore-edaThe Best Actress Award goes to Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi, starring in the film Holy Spider, by Ali Abbasi; The Camera d’or is awarded to the American film War Pony, by Riley Keough and Gina Gammell; The special mention of the Camera d’or is awarded to Plan 75, by the Japanese director Hayakawa Chie; The Palme d’or short film is attributed to Hai Bian Sheng Qi Yi Zuo Xuan Ya (The Water Murmurs), by the Chinese Jianying Chen. The World with AFP