The titular Triangle Of Sadness in previous Palme D’Or winner Ruben Ostlund’s current Cannes competition entry, we’re told, is the small space between the eyebrows and the bridge of the nose where nasty, aging lines register an accumulation of inconvenient emotions that, quite frankly, don’t sell a suit on the catwalk. “Do you think he needs Botox?,” mutters a model casting agent as Carl (Harris Dickinson) — who, being on the wrong side of 20, should worry — struts his stuff.
He will soon find himself at a fashion show where a huge neon screen announces “Everyone is equal!” That’s nonsense, obviously.
Carl can’t even find a seat.This takedown of the fashion biz acts as a preface to Triangle Of Sadness. It culminates in an argument between Carl and his girlfriend Yaya (Charlby Dean) — also a model — over who is paying for dinner.
Yaya earns much more than he does, but expects him to pick up the check. “What if I fell pregnant and couldn’t work?,” she reasons when he protests that he wants an equal relationship. “I need to know the person I’m with is going to take care of me.” But that, as she will discover in the next couple of chapters, is never a reliable assumption.
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