The Swedish director of “Triangle of Sadness” set sail from New York Harbor with two of his actors, Dolly De Leon and Zlatko Burić, to talk about seasickness and class warfare.
The Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund stood on a pier in Chelsea one overcast evening, smoking a cigarette and watching the Hudson River go by. Östlund makes deadpan comedies about the European élite. In “Force Majeure,” a father on a ski holiday sprints from his family when an avalanche approaches, to the disillusionment of his wife. In “The Square,” a museum curator is pickpocketed and hatches a fool’s quest to regain his wallet.
Writing “Triangle of Sadness,” Östlund and a researcher contacted crew members from upscale yachts and mined them for tales of decadence. One passenger had requested a special bottle of wine, which was “basically transported from the other side of the planet,” Östlund said. A captain told him about a guest who had asked for the master-bedroom Jacuzzi to be filled with champagne, plus goldfish.
Östlund said that, on luxury yachts, the staff is “trained not to say no to the passengers, so, whatever request they have, they will say, ‘Yes, sir!’ They want a unicorn? ‘O.K.!’ ”
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