In an interview last year, Triangle of Sadness’s cinematographer, Fredrik Wenzel, described the film’s 15-minute vomit sequence as “kind of beautiful to watch, like a ballet”. The visceral descent into madness that takes place during a captain’s dinner onboard a luxury yacht will conjure less elegant associations for some, but few will forget the scene easily.
The meal begins with the vessel’s alcoholic captain barely able to contain his disdain while greeting unsuspecting guests and gets worse from there when choppy conditions set in. Despite noble attempts to settle her stomach with “more champagne”, a Russian oligarch sprays orange bile across dishes of octopus and what looks like clear jelly, setting off a chain reaction that ends in an all-out explosion of human excrement.
