‘Hilarious, scathing and sometimes jaw-dropping.’
Total Film
‘Episodic, fabulistic, and self-consciously outrageous.’
Slant Magazine
'An absurd, iconoclastic riot.'
Empire
The latest satirical dark comedy from Ruben Östlund (The Square, Force Majeure) is a wickedly funny Palme d'Or winner that turns social hierarchy upside down. Celebrity model couple, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson). What first appeared Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.
Östlund’s uncanny knack for capturing the subtly devastating absurdities of human behaviour with a cool, unflinching eye are perfectly on display in this sprawling modern fable on entitlement and power dynamics.