On Saturday, Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival for Without Filter (Triangle of Sadness in VO) awarded by a jury “extremely shocked by this film”, announced Vincent Lindon, the president of the jury. . An unexpected palm for this filmmaker who was awarded only five years ago for The Square and who presented a radical feature film which once again divided festival-goers. In this new enjoyable satire, this time in the world of the ultra-rich and luxury, Unfiltered follows the adventure of Yaya and Carl, a couple of models and influencers on vacation on a luxury cruise. A journey that turns to disaster. In a kind of reverse Titanic, where the weakest are not necessarily the losers, the film dissects the springs of class: the rich against the poor, but also men against women, and whites against blacks. After Play ( 2011), Snow Therapy (2014) and The Square (2017), Ruben Östlund continues his meticulous dissection of social conventions, petty cowardice and other moral dilemmas. In a press conference, the filmmaker indicated that his next film would take place “in a long-haul plane”. “The idea is that the entertainment systems (movies, etc.) no longer work, and the stewardesses ask us to land,” he revealed. With this second Palme d’Or, five years after the one received for The Square in 2017, Ruben Östlund has therefore entered the closed circle of now nine filmmakers who have won the supreme award twice and whose list is as follows:- Ken Loach (United Kingdom): Le Vent se rises (2006), Me, Daniel Blake (2016)- Michael Haneke (Austria): The White Ribbon (2009), Love (2012)- The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium): Rosetta (1999), The Child (2005)- Emir Kusturica (Serbia): Dad is on a business trip (1985), Underground (1995)- Bille August (Denmark): Pelle the conqueror (1988), The Best Intentions (1992).- Francis Ford Coppola (United States): Grand Prix (previous name of the Palme d’or) for Secret Conversation (1974), Palme d’or for Apocalypse Now (1979) – Shohei Imamura (Japan): The ballad of Narayama (1 983), The Eel (1997)
