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If 'Triangle of Sadness' hadn't been nominated for a best picture Oscar I likely never would have seen it, that would have been no great loss. A satire of the rich and the pursuit of money, 'Sadness' has an international cast and spends most of its running time harassing and torturing them; though the wealthy here are not so much monsters as they are clueless.
A group of the 1% go on a Caribbean cruise is a fancy yatch, the voyage is awfull, they encounter rough seas and pirates, the ship sinks. A group of survivors wash up on a beach, their general lack of survival skills allows a toilet attendant to assume control of the group as only she knows how to fish and start a fire, it goes to her head.
While the film is well made, it looks good, the acting is fine and it's occasionally clever, it's also all over the place. The structure feels odd, divided into the three uneven acts with characters coming and going without resolution, it plays longer then it's 147 minutes. It's was not a fun watch, the back and forth between a Russian billionaire and the ships admittedly Marxist captian played by Woody Harrlson was probably the high point, though even that was barley above sea level. South African born model/actress Charlbi Dean Kriek is probably the most memorable member of the cast and this movie would likley have opened a lot of doors for her, however she died of a bacterial infection this summer at the age of 32, an unpleasant coda to an unpleasant film. *1/2
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