The Square

2017 [SWEDISH]

Action / Comedy / Drama

58
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 85% · 215 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 70% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 83598 83.6K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Ruben Östlund Photo
Ruben Östlund

Top cast

Dominic West Photo
Dominic West as Julian
Stefan Gödicke Photo
Stefan Gödicke as Tourette's Man
Elisabeth Moss Photo
Elisabeth Moss as Anne
Gunnar Höglund Photo
Gunnar Höglund as
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1.36 GB
1280*694
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
24 fps
2 hr 31 min
Seeds 9
2.53 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
24 fps
2 hr 31 min
Seeds 39

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by j0ng 8 / 10

I'm not a great fan of dramas, but

I'm not a great fan of dramas, but this was an entertaining film. I gave this 4 stars just for the ape scene.
Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

I maybe just wasn't in the right mood

I maybe just wasn't in the right mood for this, but after about half an hour I really didn't much care what happened to "Christian" (Claes Bang), or pretty much anyone else. He runs one of those galleries that puts a glass of water on a dusty shelf and calls it art. You know, emperor's new clothes kind of stuff. His latest "exhibition" is designed to remind the public of their responsibilities to each other but his focus is diverted when he is the victim of a pickpocket. No phone. No wallet. He devises an unique way to get them back by putting a note through all of his neighbours' letter boxes delivering an accusatory ultimatum. Curiously enough, that's not the only stupid idea he has as this rather plodding drama meanders it's way from one bad decision to another for 2½ hours. It reaches it's most bizarrely surreal when the entertainment - "Oleg" (Terry Notary) - at a very fancy fund-raising dinner goes quite spectacularly wrong, but there are plenty other daft scenarios as he tries to sort out a marketing campaign, manage a curiously sterile relationship with "Anne" (a dreadfully wooden Elizabeth Moss) and deal with an increasingly exasperating kid (Elijandro Edouard) who seems to think his own family think he nicked the stuff! To be fair to Bang, he does manage to imbue quite a decent degree of insufferable arrogance as his pompous character finds all of his comfort blankets taken away and himself exposed to a society that couldn't care less, indeed is even openly critical, of his obvious double standards. I did like the premiss, but auteur Ruben Östlund indulges himself too completely for me, and I was frankly bored by the end. Maybe a tightening edit could help refocus the humour and the moral of the story? Sorry - not for me.
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