Cannes Film Festival 2022 Awards Palme d'Or to Ruben Östlund's 'Triangle of Sadness' Amid Festival Controversies

The 75th Cannes Film Festival, held on the French Riviera, awarded its top prize to Ruben Östlund's satire 'Triangle of Sadness,' marking his second Palme d'Or win in five years. The film critiques extreme wealth through a narrative following model couple Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean, featuring graphic scenes of bodily fluids. David Cronenberg returned with 'Crimes of the Future,' a body horror film starring Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux that explores surgery as performance art in a dystopian world. Park Chan-wook's 'Decision to Leave,' a Hitchcockian police procedural, premiered in competition. Claire Denis's 'Stars at Noon' and Kelly Reichardt's 'Showing Up' represented women directors in a lineup with only four female filmmakers. Charlotte Wells's debut 'Aftersun' stood out as a poignant father-daughter story. Festival controversies included reports of interns paying to work at the American Pavilion with few benefits. The event poster referenced Peter Weir's 'The Truman Show,' featuring Jim Carrey. Overall, the festival was perceived as a weaker year with few audience-uniting films.