Models Carl and Yaya are navigating the world of fashion while exploring the boundaries of their relationship. The couple are invited for a luxury cruise with a rogues’ gallery of super-rich passengers, a Russian oligarch, British arms dealers and an idiosyncratic, alcoholic, Marx- quoting captain. At first, all appears Instagrammable. But a storm is brewing, and heavy seasickness hits the passengers during the seven-course captain’s dinner. The cruise ends catastrophically. Carl and Yaya find themselves marooned on a desert island with a group of billionaires and one of the ship’s cleaners. Hierarchy is suddenly flipped upside down, as the housekeeper is the only one who knows how to fish.
- Directed by
- Ruben Östlund
- Starring
- Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Zlatko Burić, Woody Harrelson
- Country & Year
- Sweden · 2022
- Language & Runtime
- English · 149 min
- Status
- Available
Where to Watch
Festivals & Awards
- Cannes Film Festival, Academy Awards 2023
- 3 nominations including: Best Achievement in Directing, César Awards 2023
- Nominee: Best Foreign Film, BFI London Film Festival 2022
The Director
Ruben Östlund
Ruben Östlund was born in 1974 and grew up on an island on the West Coast of Sweden. He studied at the University of Gothenburg where he met Erik Hemmendorff with whom he later founded Plattform Produktion. An avid skier, Östlund directed three ski films, alluding to his taste for long sequence shots, a taste he structured and developed throughout his film studies and which to this day remains an important trademark of his work. Östlund’s feature debut THE GUITAR MONGOLOID (2005) won the FIPRESCI Award at Moscow Film Festival.