<p>Swedish director Ruben Ostlund captured the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or top prize on Saturday for the second time in five years with "Triangle of Sadness", a biting, viciously funny social satire.</p>.<p>Using Ostlund's now cult cringe-inducing style, the movie places models and the ultra-rich on a cruise ship, only to find their status suddenly undermined by unexpected events.</p>.<p>"We had one goal to really try to make an exciting film for the audience and bring thought-provoking content," he said as he accepted the statuette at a gala ceremony on the French Riviera.</p>.<p>"To entertain them, ask themselves questions, to go out after the screening and have something to talk about."</p>.<p>The 48-year-old director has already taken a scalpel to modern bourgeois niceties with his Palme d'Or-winning art world send-up "The Square" in 2017.</p>.<p>"Triangle of Sadness", named for the part of the face where furrowed eyebrows create wrinkles, was an early favourite at the 12-day cinema showcase, with a total of 21 pictures in contention.</p>.<p>The movie can be read as a critique of capitalism and its excesses, he said.</p>.<p>In a key scene in the movie, a luxury yacht's captain -- played by US star Woody Harrelson -- and a Russian billionaire, both drunk, trade quotes by philosopher Karl Marx and hardcore capitalist Ronald Reagan, the late US president.</p>.<p>An extended sequence of projectile vomiting and violent diarrhoea on the cruise ship left audiences either howling with laughter or turning green.</p>
<p>Swedish director Ruben Ostlund captured the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or top prize on Saturday for the second time in five years with "Triangle of Sadness", a biting, viciously funny social satire.</p>.<p>Using Ostlund's now cult cringe-inducing style, the movie places models and the ultra-rich on a cruise ship, only to find their status suddenly undermined by unexpected events.</p>.<p>"We had one goal to really try to make an exciting film for the audience and bring thought-provoking content," he said as he accepted the statuette at a gala ceremony on the French Riviera.</p>.<p>"To entertain them, ask themselves questions, to go out after the screening and have something to talk about."</p>.<p>The 48-year-old director has already taken a scalpel to modern bourgeois niceties with his Palme d'Or-winning art world send-up "The Square" in 2017.</p>.<p>"Triangle of Sadness", named for the part of the face where furrowed eyebrows create wrinkles, was an early favourite at the 12-day cinema showcase, with a total of 21 pictures in contention.</p>.<p>The movie can be read as a critique of capitalism and its excesses, he said.</p>.<p>In a key scene in the movie, a luxury yacht's captain -- played by US star Woody Harrelson -- and a Russian billionaire, both drunk, trade quotes by philosopher Karl Marx and hardcore capitalist Ronald Reagan, the late US president.</p>.<p>An extended sequence of projectile vomiting and violent diarrhoea on the cruise ship left audiences either howling with laughter or turning green.</p>