“Armageddon Time” and “Triangle of Sadness” Tackle Classism at Cannes

By Mark Asch Impressions from a Saturday-morning run along the Croisette, past the resort hotels’ private beach clubs and in the shadow of palm trees: There are a lot more yachts this year than in the pandemic-shrunk 2021 festival, which makes sense; there have been a lot more parties in those private beach clubs, or maybe that I’ve just been invited to more, and every distributor or production company or organization is itching to splash company money on an open bar and a whiff of the glamour that keeps tourists thronged outside the Marriott all day, hoping for a glimpse of someone emerging t…

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