Triangle of Sadness

Director: Ruben Östlund
Year Released: 2022
Rating: 2.0

Multiple wealthy individuals - including supermodel Yaya (Charlbi Dean), her boyfriend Carl (Harris Dickinson), fertilizer merchant Dimitry (Zlatko Burić), programmer Jarmo (Henrik Dorsin), etc. - are invited onboard a yacht helmed by Captain Smith (Woody Harrelson), but during supper the water gets rocky, the guests vomit everywhere, toilets burst, a grenade goes off and they wind up on a (seemingly) deserted island where roles are reversed as Abigail (Dolly de Leon), who was a cleaner on the boat, becomes invaluable for her ability to catch and cook fish, start a fire, etc.  It's "supposed" to be satirical, but all I can find is contempt and loathing: you'll never see me "defending" the excesses of the upper classes, but Östlund clearly delights in watching them covered in filth and rolling around while Harrelson reads Chomsky to them over the intercom; when they're on dry land, he gets off on seeing billionaires beg for scraps of food.  I'm guessing the director is familiar with either J. M. Barrie's play The Admirable Crichton or Lina Wertmüller's Swept Away (or perhaps both), but this is an ultra-simplified view of class and race made watchable by its multi-national cast: Filipina actress De Leon gives Part III its snarl, and it's a tragedy Ms. Dean died in August of this year because she's magnetic.