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Triangle of Sadness (2022)
A very naive film, simplistic and phony
When you go to watch a film that received the Palme d'Or you are justified to expect a certain level of quality, of profundity, of acting. In the case with Triangle of Sadness, it turned out to be a disappointment on all three accounts. But most importantly, it turned out to be a very fake film, a film that's brimful of false and unreal conceptions of things it's supposed to deride. It feels like Ruben Östlund didn't do his homework properly either on fashion world, or on luxury cruises or on the rich. And he was also too busy with directing to think through the film's ending which results in a big question mark after the credits start rolling. Apparently, the judges at the Cannes also didn't know any better, or maybe the competition was really weak. The Russian war in Ukraine shows just how dangerous it can be to have such distorted perceptions of realities on the ground. A simple example: Russian oligarchs look and behave nothing like the goofy affable guy presented in the film. Östlund could have just googled the Russian Forbes list. But no, for the Swedish director and his ilk their imagination is deemed far more important than reality. Regarding the cast, Dolly De Leon, Vicki Berlin and Woody Harrelson were superb in their roles. Although the same cannot be said about Harris Dickinson, whose performance was rather wooden. All in all, if Triangle is envisioned as a satire of the rich and social injustices in our society, then the rich and social injustices in our society can be more than certain of their sustainable future.
Toute première fois (2015)
A bright example of homophobia in French cinema
The movie's message is that gay people aren't really gay, they simply haven't met a right girl who would set them straight (in more than one meaning). One wouldn't be surprised to get such a message from a French movie of 1995, or from a Russian film of 2015. But to receive this memo from a French film of 2015 is an eye-opener. A total dearth of artistic merits (the whole movie is an unbearable string of worn-out clichés and trite stereotypes) coupled with a thinly-veiled homophobia (gays are nut cases supported by freaks) can hardly result in a good movie. I especially wouldn't recommend gay people to watch it, unless you want to get an unpleasant aftertaste of being insulted by the arrogance of 'tolerant' people who 'have lots of gay friends'.