The film-maker Ruben Östlund, known for his biting satires of bourgeois life, was born in Styrsö, Sweden, in 1974. He studied film in Gothenburg and made three features before breaking out with 2014’s Force Majeure, which won the jury prize at Cannes. His latest films, The Square (2017) and Triangle of Sadness (2022), both won the Cannes Palme d’Or and this year Östlund served as the festival’s jury president. Ruben Östlund: A Curzon Collection, featuring his complete filmography on DVD and a moral-dilemma card game, is out now.
