Worship of forms, unbridled materialism and patriarchy: in Without filter (triangle of grief), Swede Ruben Östlund, again running for the Palme d’Or afterwards The square in 2017, breaking the codes of modern society in a satisfying satire.
Yaya, model and influencer, who is obsessed with her image and her career, was offered a luxury cruise with her boyfriend Carl, who is also a model.
Aboard the yacht, a gallery of wealthy characters, alcoholic Russian oligarchs, a charming retired British couple who make their fortune selling mine anti-personnel and other despicable characters harass the head of the crew on all their whims, while it is the latter who in turn martyrs its crew.
But a big storm – in which the captain of the boat is indifferent, a completely drunk Marxist at the crucial moment – will shake the ship and upset this balance.
A political film
In a kind of titanic on the contrary, where in this case the weakest does not necessarily lose, Ruben Östlund separates the springs of class from top to bottom: the rich against the poor, but also the men against the women, and the whites against to blacks.
A concern at the center of his work, he admitted to the AFP.
I think people are very sensitive to hierarchies, we are conditioned for the big “social game” from birthhe assured. Every day the question is “what is my position in the social hierarchy?
Raised by a communist mother in the 70s and 80s it’s really one block against anotherthe Swede called himself a socialist: I believe in a strong state and a mixed economyhe said.
nuanced characters
The character of Carl, which has Ruben Östlund many metlook for more legality in his relationships, with his companion, more famous and better paid than him.
With him as with other protagonists of the film, the director excels, as in Snow Therapy where The squareto divide the little cowards, who are always more suited to propriety than to reality.
At the scene everyone is vomiting [lors d’un dîner à bord du bateau, NDLR]this is at stake: everyone is trying to keep calm, hold their fork, despite drowning at seaexplained Ruben Ostlund.
Harris Dickinson, who plays Carl, added: it’s very provocative, of course it’s political, but beyond that Ruben in his scenario pushes our behavior, our morals, our sense of propriety to the limit ….
Even Yaya’s character, resigned from being a wife trophy, It may sound superficial, but in fact I think he is afraid of his future, in an industry where you have a very short career.ensures the model Charlbi Dean, which contains it.
Ruben Östlund doesn’t make it easy: the weak are as bad as the powerful and powerful, and abuse their power when they get it.
At the climax of dinner in the middle of a storm, an orgiastic scene where the screen pitches to the rhythm of the boat, the grating satire turns into frank comedy.
Despite its 2.5 hours, Without filter -cut into three parts for each main sequence in the story-speed up the walk.
Source: Radio-Canada
