Tag: The Square

  • Cannes Film Festival Sets Dates for 2024 Edition

    Cannes Film Festival Sets Dates for 2024 Edition

    The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the dates of its 77th edition which will take place May 14-25, 2024.This year’s festival wrapped May 27 with Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” winning the Palme d’Or, Jonathan Glazer’s “A Zone of Interest” take home the Grand Prize, and Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves” nabbing the Jury Prize.…

  • ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Director Ruben Östlund to Preside Over Cannes Jury

    ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Director Ruben Östlund to Preside Over Cannes Jury

    Ruben Östlund, the Oscar-nominated director whose latest film “Triangle of Sadness” won last year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, will be back at the French festival to preside over the jury of its 76th edition.Östlund is a Cannes regular, having won the festival’s top prize twice, for “Triangle of Sadness” in 2022 and for “The Square”…

  • Ruben Östlund named jury president of 76th Cannes Film Festival

    Ruben Östlund named jury president of 76th Cannes Film Festival

    Appointment comes 50 years after fellow Swede Ingrid Bergman presided over 1973 festival jury.Two-time Palme d’Or-winning Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund has been named president of the jury for the 76th Cannes Film Festival, running May 16-27.The director, known for his darkly comic social satires, will make his Croisette return following his second Palme d’Or win…

  • Ruben Östlund Named Cannes Film Festival Jury President

    Ruben Östlund Named Cannes Film Festival Jury President

    After nabbing Palme d’Ors for his last two films, Ruben Östlund is selecting this year’s winner of Cannes’ top prize. The Swedish director of “Triangle of Sadness” and “The Square” has been appointed jury president for the 76th Cannes Film Festival, it was announced Tuesday.“I am happy, proud, and humbled to be trusted with the…

  • LevelK boards Axel Petersén’s Malta-set drama ‘Shame On Dry Land’ (exclusive)

    LevelK boards Axel Petersén’s Malta-set drama ‘Shame On Dry Land’ (exclusive)

    Writer/director Axel Petersén calls it “a redemption drama stuck inside a Mediterranean Noir”.LevelK has boarded international sales for Axel Petersén’s Shame On Dry Land.The drama is set against the world of online gamblers who fled Sweden for Malta. An exiled conman goes to a lavish wedding, seeking redemption but derailing on a wild goose chase…

  • Critic’s Notebook: Looking for Connections in a Less-Than-Dazzling Cannes Lineup

    Critic’s Notebook: Looking for Connections in a Less-Than-Dazzling Cannes Lineup

    This year, the Cannes Film Festival kicked off with a restoration of Jean Eustache’s 1973 ménage à trois scandal “The Mother and the Whore” and concluded with a screening of controversial Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness,” creating an odd kind of symmetry for the event’s 75th anniversary edition, between which I somehow managed to…

  • A great Cannes goes pear-shaped giving the Palme d’Or to Triangle of Sadness

    A great Cannes goes pear-shaped giving the Palme d’Or to Triangle of Sadness

    Ruben Östlund’s super-rich satire is an unworthy winner, particularly given the calibre of competition on the CroisetteThis year’s Cannes brought another member into the double-Palme club, the directors who have won it twice, to go with Ken Loach and the Dardenne brothers – among others. Ruben Östlund, who won the big prize in 2017 for…

  • Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness wins Palme d’Or at Cannes

    Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness wins Palme d’Or at Cannes

    Swedish director’s satire received an eight-minute standing ovation at festivalRuben Östlund’s social satire Triangle of Sadness has won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes film festival, handing the Swedish director one of cinema’s most prestigious prizes for the second time.Östlund won Cannes’ top honour for his film The Square in 2017. Triangle of Sadness,…

  • 2022 Cannes Awards: Full Winners List, from Song Kang Ho to ‘Triangle of Sadness’

    2022 Cannes Awards: Full Winners List, from Song Kang Ho to ‘Triangle of Sadness’

    Ruben Östlund won his second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, for “Triangle of Sadness,” a satire of influencer culture and beauty’s ability to open doors that inspired uproarious laughter — and disgust. The Swedish director, who previously won the Palme for art-world sendup “The Square,” urged the audience to let out “a primal…

  • Neon Acquires Ruben Östlund’s ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Out of Cannes

    Neon Acquires Ruben Östlund’s ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Out of Cannes

    The deals at Cannes keep coming.Neon has now acquired the North American distribution rights to Ruben Östlund’s satire “Triangle of Sadness,” which is playing in the main competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.The English-language film from the Palme d’Or winning director of “The Square” and “Force Majeure” stars Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Woody Harrelson,…