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

Much better than The Circle.

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

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

this yall’s palme d’or winner?

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.

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.

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

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.

46/100

Östlund's previous films aren't exactly subtle, but he did at least keep the subtext sub-. The Square just vomits its ideas directly onto the screen, without making a token effort to disguise them, or even to connect them via more than a series of discrete interludes that interact like yarn strings on a detective's corkboard. The clumsy juxtaposition of intellectual and animalistic recalls Human Nature (though the comedy occasionally lands here, since there's no epic disconnect between a director and writer's sensibilities), while the art-world sneering suggests the worst impulses of Zwigoff and Clowes (including the one aspect of Ghost World that falls flat). Not a total loss—the condom-wrestling scene, in particular, deserves a worthier context—but the Cannes jury clearly graded on an ambition-based curve.

A movie that wants to tell you about empathy, privilege, political correctness, the social contract and the digital age, and all I want is an explanation for how Elisabeth Moss has a pet chimpanzee. It’s incredibly funny and breathlessly audacious but too baggy and muddled to really satisfy. Terry Notary’s ape-man act is a showstopper, but it arguably shoots the film in the foot; it has to go through an entire third act after already peaking.

It is not gripping. I don't like the rich peoples either but just because people feel safe doesn't make them callous. Although he admires style, he's not as good as Haneke's movies

We are all the square

daddy is a rotter.

aristocracy
access to the art
the poors
patriarchy
women's place
relation of power
sexual relations
kids

looser and colder than i was expecting, though its satire is spot-on

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Thought provoking and funny. There's some great performances and terrific scenes. Ostlund creates chaos and now I must check out his other work

Me parece mucho más fácil hacer una crítica negativa que identificar todos aquellos agentes que se ponen en juego con gran eficacia. Hasta qué punto es cínica, machirula, burguesa o poco comprometida con cualquier cosa y hasta qué punto a Ostlund lo que le interesa es lo absurdo e infra-ordinario que se encuentra, incluso, en la cotidianeidad de un director artístico de algo tan aparentemente elevado como un museo de arte.

Blu-ray

The Square is a sanctuary of trust and caring. Within it we all share equal rights and obligations. If you place an object in a museum does that make this object a piece of art?