Written and directed by Ruben Östlund
Stars: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Vicki Berlin, Dolly De Leon, Woody Harrelson, Zlatko Burić, Iris Berben, Henrik Dorsin, Jean-Christophe Folly, Amanda Walker, Oliver Ford Davies, and Sunnyi Melles
You would think that a movie that won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival would be good? This is hints of it that is saddled with nonsense scenes.
The biggest problem with the movie was that it followed a drawn out fight between fashion models Carl and Yaya (Dickinson, Dean). Holy shit. That part of the movie was unnecessary. This movie was two and half hours long. Cut the first part of the movie it would have been better.
The movie doesn't pick up until a whole bunch of rich people go on a yacht on a all hell breaks loose. That's when I was engaged in the movie.
I understood that the movie was supposed to be a satire on classism, economic disparity and all that. Cool. It was not making a bigger point. If the first part of the movie was jettisoned, the action with the boat and the final sequence of the movie was expanded then I would love the movie more. As it stands on its own, I cannot get behind this.
Rating: 6/10
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