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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Vanessa Thorpe

Down with the rich! Class rage fuels new wave of ‘us v them’ films and plays

Harris Dickinson as Carl in Triangle of Sadness, which won Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival.
Harris Dickinson as Carl in Triangle of Sadness, which won Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival. Photograph: Neon/Allstar

A luxury berth on a superyacht might seem a good place to unwind. But cinema audiences will feel rather differently about the appeal of this sort of private cruise after watching Triangle of Sadness, the top prizewinner at the Cannes film festival.

One nasty, graphic scene, which features the copious vomit and diarrhoea of high-net worth passengers, drew whoops and gasps from the crowd at its premiere on the French Riviera, and then again at the annual film festival in Toronto last week, ahead of its release in British cinemas next month.

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