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Ruben Östlund: 4 publications

Clothes and control: Triangle of Sadness as a case study

 

Piret Ilves - 06-01-2026

Rough waters and unreliable clothes: Advocate for Conscious Clothing Piret Ilves reveals the endurance of textiles and the fragilities of the homo consumericus [Read More...]

Top 12 biopolitical dirty movies: The Square (number 6)

 

Fabio Rocha - 15-07-2025

Fabio Rocha mercilessly dissects the anatomy of biopolitical cinema with Ruben Östlund's first film to win the Palme d'Or to hand, in the latest addition to his series of Foucault-inspired dirty movies [Read More...]

Triangle of Sadness

Ruben Östlund
2022

Victor Fraga - 26-10-2022

Ruben Östlund's new absurdist comedy subverts gender, class and race power structures, while also mocking the futility of the superrich - now on all major VoD platforms [Read More...]

The Square

Ruben Östlund
2017

Victor Fraga - 20-05-2017

You won't die laughing with this extremely long, caustic and strange Scandinavian comedy, but the movie does have some arresting and clever moments - Palme d'Or winner is in cinemas Friday, March 16th. [Read More...]