Write On with 'Triangle of Sadness' Writer Ruben Östlund

Triangle of Sadness is a satirical black comedy from
writer/director Ruben Ostlund. The film, staring Woody Harrelson,
takes the world of luxury boating to the next level with its wry
comedy that exposes many upstairs/downstairs differences among
the characters. Ostlund discusses the importance of pitching his
project before he starts writing. “If you are a writer or if you
are a director, your profession is to be the artistically
responsible for the product that you are producing. You are the
one that is deciding what ideas should be put into this, what
should taken be taken out,” he says.


The film won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
This was Ostlund’s second win at Cannes. He talked about how
special it is to him to have had these successes. “I have been
kind of lucky because every time that I have finished a previous
film and we have had a premiere of the film in Cannes, there's a
little table on a small cafe where I walk to with my producer and
my mentor. Two of my best friends and we sit down and we talk
about what is going to be the next project that we are working
on. And so, it is kind of how to say astonishing that we have
been on this little cafe and exactly the same table four times
now and decided which next project is.”