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The Square [Sub: Eng]
A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
May 17, 1997 in Dalarna, Sweden
October 19, 1982 in Gothenburg, Sweden
September 23, 1987 in Sweden
24 July 1982, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 December 1992
20 January 1970
January 18, 2018
Yet, this movie is anything but misanthropic. And while it pokes at the pretensions of modern art, it does not dismiss it altogether.January 03, 2018
The movie makes the audience laugh while looking covering its eyes in embarrassment for the characters. [Full review in Portuguese.]November 02, 2017
It's laugh-out-loud funny and occasionally just plain silly. But it asks a serious question that seems more urgent with every passing day: "How much inhumanity does it take before we access your humanity?"December 23, 2017
Largely functions as a laundry list of scene concepts.January 18, 2018
The Square keeps viewers off-balance, taking on race and xenophobia, gender and abuse, poverty and class privilege with a sideways Nordic tone that is both hilarious and serious.December 30, 2017
Brilliant satire on the art world focused on the pretentious, Whitney Museum milieu in Sweden. A morality tale mixed with sketches that put SNL to shame.November 17, 2017
The whole experience is rough going: sometimes numbing, sometimes horrifying, sometimes merely baffling. There's a kind of artful artlessness at work hereJanuary 08, 2018
Presenting itself as a balanced satire of everyone, Östlund's "I hate all people equally" take is never satisfying.November 02, 2017
For all its stylishness and sophistication, "The Square" never adds up to more than its very attractive parts.November 09, 2017
It's funny throughout - not to say that it inspires many laughs, but it's full of irony and absurdity and is very smart.December 08, 2017
An examination of social context, elitism, cultural bubbles and more, The Square is - to put it precisely - absolutely bonkers. But purposefully bonkers.November 09, 2017
I do not understand it.