Ruben Ostlund's Palme d'Or-winning satire drops a pair of influencers into a floating microcosm of wealth and watches the hierarchy collapse in real time.
What is Triangle Of Sadness about?
Model-turned-influencer Carl and his partner Yaya land a spot aboard a luxury yacht catering to the ultra-rich, a world of endless champagne and performative kindness that masks an entirely different set of rules underneath. When the trip capsizes into chaos, literally and socially, the passengers who once commanded the crew's every move find themselves stripped of the money, titles, and manners that used to protect them. Survival strands the group on unfamiliar ground where the old pecking order no longer applies, and the film watches, with a dry and unblinking eye, who actually knows how to keep everyone alive.
About the cast
Harris Dickinson and the late Charlbi Dean anchor the film as the couple whose relationship is put through a public audit before the real disaster even starts. Woody Harrelson appears as the ship's captain, a man more interested in arguing philosophy than steering the boat, while Zlatko Buric, Dolly de Leon, Vicki Berlin, Henrik Dorsin, and Iris Berben round out a cast of passengers and crew whose comfort with power shifts once the situation does.
Context & significance
The film premiered to a Cannes standing ovation and went on to become one of the most talked-about English-language satires of its year, praised for a structure that splits cleanly into three acts, each with its own rhythm and target. Ostlund, known for turning social discomfort into comedy, builds long, patient scenes that let awkwardness run its full course before the punchline lands. Its themes, wealth, class, and who really holds power once the usual markers disappear, are handled with enough restraint that the satire never announces itself; it simply lets the audience watch a familiar order stop working.
Watching Triangle Of Sadness on Ktime
Triangle of Sadness streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and subtitles, so households can choose either a Farsi voice track or original audio with Farsi text. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film's page and details are open to browse without one. The interface itself runs in Farsi, built for Persian-speaking viewers looking for festival cinema alongside their regular watchlist.