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The Guardian - UK
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Triangle of Sadness takes four top prizes at European film awards

Ruben Östlund, Vicki Berlin, Zlatko Burić, Sunnyi Melles, Philippe Bober, Erik Hemmendorff and a guest at the European film awards.
Ruben Östlund, Vicki Berlin, Zlatko Burić, Sunnyi Melles, Philippe Bober, Erik Hemmendorff and a guest at the European film awards. Photograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images

It was plain sailing at this year’s European film awards in Reykjavík for Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Ostlund’s luxury yacht-set satire of western entitlement and self-regard, which won best film as well as three other major prizes.

The Swedish director, fast becoming an EFAs favourite, also took best director and best screenwriter to add to his six European awards for his 2017 art-world roast The Square. Veteran Croatian actor Zlatko Burić scooped best actor for his role as a Russian fertiliser magnate who becomes an unlikely revolutionary aboard Ostlund’s puke-swilling ship of fools.

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