Director Ruben Östlund announced in Cannes that he wanted one of the scenes in his upcoming airplane disaster movie The Entertainment System Is Down to prompt the biggest walkout in the history ...

People can't stop talking about the monkey and the condom in art-world satire "The Square," which holds up an unflattering mirror to complacent Liberal high culture. “Revenge!” cried Swedish ...

In just over a decade, Ruben Östlund has established himself as one of the new Cannes masters, leapfrogging from sidebar to sidebar—2011’s Play debuted in Directors’ Fortnight, 2014’s ...

Ruben Östlund's highly anticipated "The Entertainment System Is Down" has added Cinema Inutile as executive producer, continuing the company's strategic expansion into larger-scale international ...

Meanwhile, wealth is obscene from practically every angle. Irreverent Swedish satirist Ruben Östlund gets right up in there, probing the pores of the elitist worlds of supermodels and the mega ...

Swedish director Ruben Östlund opened this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival with his raucously entertaining new social satire “Triangle of Sadness,” continuing a festival tour that began this ...

In 2015, on Oscar nominations morning, Swedish director Ruben Östlund became something of an internet meme. Östlund and his producing partner Erik Hemmendorff, inside a room in New York’s ...

Ruben Östlund has always maintained a fearlessness in his work. 2011’s Play depicted a group of Swedish-Somali boys who rob white kids by preying on their discomfort with race. A thread in 2008’s ...

The two-time Palme d'Or winner wants media to be treated with a level of caution that reflects its increasingly large impact on society. As human beings spend an ever-increasing amount of their ...

Palme d'Or winner Ruben Östlund expands on the formula that worked in 'The Square,' orchestrating absurdist situations that make rich folks squirm. The closer you look at the subject of beauty ...