Synopsis
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.
2017 Directed by Ruben Östlund
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.
Claes Bang Elisabeth Moss Dominic West Terry Notary Christopher Læssø Lise Stephenson Engström Lilianne Mardon Marina Schiptjenko Annica Liljeblad Elijandro Edouard Daniel Hallberg Martin Sööder John Nordling Maja Gödicke Nicki Dar Josephine Schneider Sofie Hamilton Robert Hjelm Anna-Stina Malmborg Gunnar Häglund Nina Strand Erik Sundfeldt Peggy Johansson Jonas Dahlbom Sofica Ciuraru Stefan Gödicke Mia Svenheimer Per Magnus Johansson Erika Jareman Show All…
Philippe Bober Erik Hemmendorff Katja Adomeit Olivier Père Alexander Bohr Sarah Nagel Isabell Wiegand
ZDF/Arte Plattform Produktion ARTE France Cinéma Coproduction Office Essential Filmproduktion Imperative Entertainment SVT Film i Väst Société Parisienne de Production DR
方形, 더 스퀘어, The Square. La farsa del arte, O quadrado, Квадрат, 自由广场, Kare, A négyzet, Štvorec, Το Τετράγωνο, The Square: La farsa del arte, The Square: A Arte da Discórdia, Квадратът, Čtverec, הריבוע, O Quadrado, Kvadratas, 抓狂美術館, 方寸見人心, ザ・スクエア 思いやりの聖域, Kvadrat, Kvadrāts, Khi Nghệ Thuật Sai, Pătratul, อาร์ต ตัวแม่งงงงงง
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.
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
Right after this movie, my friend and I stepped outside of IFC Center, where the promotional team has placed a version of a Square. We stood in it for a little bit, talked about the movie, and suddenly a homeless man came up to us and asked for money. I said I didn’t have any change and he walked away.
3D technology has gone too far
I would like to say, for the record, that this may be one of the very worst films I've ever seen. Not a single idea, image, motif, theme, joke, performance or shot connected with me. Irritating, reactionary and incoherent, this is, in a best-case scenario, a 3 minute short hammered out to an excruciating 140 minutes (reportedly cut down from 160!!). The film's intended scathing critique of art world arrogance is reverse engineered on to characters and situations that are so unbelievable and insubstantial that it ends up as a bloated manifestation of the titular Square – a vapid, experiential conceptual art piece whose purpose is justified by abstruse double-speak. I watched this film and wondered whether Ruben Östland ever had contact with another human being. If he has, there is no doubt in my mind that he was revolted by them. Since seeing it, this film has stayed with me like a weeping boil. Burn the negative.
Ruben Östlund, you criminally underused Elisabeth Moss, apologize or I will create chaos with you.
Bourgeois cynicism. Perfect calibrated to offend everyone and no one in the art world. Film festival establishment finally gets the hateful Haneke replacement it deserves.
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.