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 Marina Schiptjenko Lise Stephenson Engström Lilianne Mardon 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…
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方形, 더 스퀘어, O quadrado, The Square. La farsa del arte, Квадрат
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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 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
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.
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.
Ruben Östlund, you criminally underused Elisabeth Moss, apologize or I will create chaos with you.
I was reading about the artist Santiago Sierra today and it made me think of this movie. I don't know why.
At the opening night of an exhibition, he hired a homeless man to clean people's shoes as they entered.
Imagine being a wealthy person with some money to burn on an artwork. You rock up in your fancy car, your expensive suit and with a fat cheque book.
Then as you enter the door you are confronted by a dishevelled, smelly homeless dude offering to shine your shoes.
Talk about an inequality slap to the face. Here is a bare foot man without a home who is literally getting down on his hands and knees to clean the shit…