Are You “Grumpy Brand” Balenciaga or “Smiley Brand” H&M? Watch the Trailer for Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness to Find Out

The opening scene of the simply launched Triangle of Sadness trailer–the upcoming function movie (and English-language debut) from Ruben Östlund that premiered in Could on the 2022 Cannes Movie Competition and acquired an eight-minute standing ovation and the Palme d’Or–encompasses a group of male fashions (shirtless and in denims, 2000s Abercrombie-style) taking course from a casting director. On the heart stands English actor Harris Dickison, who performs Carl, making faces because the director prompts “Balenciaga, H&M, Balenciaga, H&M.” The fashions, in flip, swap from mall-brand smile to Paris-Vogue-Week-frown–or from “grumpy model” to “smiley model,” because the director places it. For sure, the primary twenty-two seconds of the trailer are a scrumptious serving of the style stereotypes all of us love (sure, even us).

The extremely anticipated movie tells the story of a style mannequin couple, Carl and Yaya–she’s additionally an influencer, in fact–who get invited on a luxurious cruise for the uber-rich (thus far, so good) run by a seemingly Marxist captain (okay, promising thus far) performed by Woody Harrelson, just for them to change into stranded (uh-oh), because the movie’s logline reads.