In theaters since Wednesday, “Without Filter” is Ruben Östlund’s fierce new satire. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the last Cannes Film Festival, the film takes us aboard a cruise that turns into a nightmare.
Without filter of Ruben Ostlund
With Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean Kriek, Woody Harrelson
What is it about ? After Fashion Week, Carl and Yaya, a couple of models and influencers, are invited on a yacht for a luxury cruise. While the crew takes great care of the vacationers, the captain refuses to leave his cabin as the famous gala dinner approaches. Events take an unexpected turn and the balance of power is reversed when a storm rises and endangers the comfort of the passengers.
Second Palme and first film in English
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Of Swedish origin, the director signs his first film in English. His scripts dealing with universal subjects, the main difficulty for him was to grasp the nuances of Shakespeare’s language. The actors allowed him to fill in his gaps and enrich the dialogues. However, he underlines: “I am divided on the fact of making films in English because I remain critical of the domination of Anglo-Saxon culture. The influence she has on Sweden and on Scandinavia has taken on delirious proportions.”
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The director says: “In Swedish, we call it the worry wrinkle, it would be the sign that we have had a lot of hardships in our life. I found it to be indicative of our times’ obsession with looks and how inner well-being is, in a way, secondary.”
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He discovered during his research that male models generally earn three times less than a woman. This salary disparity was an opportunity to stage a couple of models and observe the difference in treatment between them. He specifies: “Many male models have told me that they are often confronted with homosexual men with a lot of power in the industry who want to sleep with them, sometimes against the promise of a better career.
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