Triangle of SadnessRuben Ostlund, 15, 147min★★★★★Do you remember that sociology experiment that asked people to administer electric shocks to others, which proved that we are all actually budding Nazis? The Swedish film-maker Ruben Ostlund makes films that do the same. Ostlund’s method is to find an area in which human behaviour stinks to high heaven – the art world in The Square, or the world of the obscenely wealthy in his new film – then shoot take after take in pursuit of the moment human nature accidentally reveals itself. His films have the hilarity and plausibility of a blooper reel, or an episode of Candid Camera.
Triangle of Sadness may be his biggest and best provocation yet: an Eat the
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