Much better than The Circle.

guy behind me, when the square came on screen: "that's the square"

So you've got a heavy-handed, sorta clumsy piece of art concerning inclusive spaces, unexamined privilege, and performative allyship about people who make and promote heavy-handed, sorta clumsy art about inclusive spaces, unexamined privilege, and performative allyship rather than confront their own hypocrisies. So there you go. This works more than it doesn't mostly because it's very funny and feels spontaneous even though it's almost absurdly schematic and can't stop bluntly explaining itself.

"I CAN TAKE THAT!
GIVE IT TO ME, CHRISTIAN!"

thought i would love this, but it has about 6 different movies crammed into 1 and didn’t do much for me. although, the two main elisabeth moss scenes are absolutely hilarious

i’m speechless. truly something special. satire on art, classicism, power, nationalism, and so much more.

also the first movie where i saw people fight over a used condom, use that information as you will.

Using art to criticize art, among other things. Perfect!

This was so fucking funny I can’t. It’s crazy uneven but I can’t help loving it. It’s so ambitious and clever.

This is a post modern art film that tries to talk about almost everything
morals, rich and poor, racism, modern arts and criticise them

palm d'or winner

200th movie logged

A film that tries to be super deep but ends up coming across as quiet shallow. There are many interesting underlying themes that could have been focused on in much better ways, but instead the film just tells you with a complete lack of subtly. Maybe that’s the point and that people are so unbothered to see what’s directly in front of them. Despite the fantastic performances by all of the cast, these characters are insufferable. Do they learn anything from all these thematic events? The film is still well shot and scored. It didn’t need to be two and a half hours long. I understand what it was going for, I just wish it was doing it in a better way and with a bit more subtly.

had to watch this for my art spaces class so i felt like i had to examine this through my knowledge about the art world but i was surprised to have kinda enjoyed it even if i was 90% sure i was gonna fall asleep (i didn’t!!)

the overall storyline is still weird and confusing but once you notice the little hints of symbolism it does get a little redeemable. well, in my case at least.

other things that i enjoyed: the juxtapositions, the wide shots, the many squares, the monkey and the condom argument

The Square is a funny and supremely tense exploration of the frontier of the tranquil civility wealth affords one which is constantly threatened by intrusions from the terrifying unexpected nature of life. The sequence with Terry Notary is one of the most spellbinding of that decade.