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User Comments for: The Square

sistersolaris says...

7 years ago

"What is the point of that? Nothing, that was the point."

A critique of art-world pomposity and self-importance. But also an exploration of empathy.
Gloriously skewering art world pretension, liberal guilt and the patronising middle class.
Horrific or darkly comic depending on your point of view.
Satire of the top tier.

A film by an artist who recognizes art can't save the world. But it can at least help us laugh at it.

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passy says...

6 years ago

The Square is more a series of loosely connected vignettes than one cohesive story. I almost got distracted while watching for the connective tissue, but the only through-line is the search for help and the theme of power imbalance and domination. Despite the long runtime and the feeling of something missing tying it all together, I was never bored, which is testament to the excellent direction and camera work. There is so much beautiful symbolism, giving you always something to look out for in almost every frame.

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Nancy L Draper says...

6 years ago

Rarely do I give up on a movie. Even bad ones I will try to finish to give the filmmaker a chance to complete their dialogue. But this one exceeded my tolerance. It was meant to be a bitting satire about the pretentiousness of art speaking nothing but claiming to have an inspired depth but it ended up being just what it was deriding. I could only hang in for 54 minutes. Despite a great cast, and a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film by the 90th Oscars, this was just a bad, boring, vacant movie. I give it a 3 (bad) out of 10. [Drama?]

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PixarFR says...

4 months ago

I’m sorry to say that it’s a waste of time. The sound track was quite good, but the rest…

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ecnef says...

5 years ago

So yeah, this film... I mean I kept waiting for something to happen, and nothing ever really came of anything. but in the end, despite that, it was still sorta interesting.
http://www.susanhatedliterature.net/2019/03/the-square/

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schmenky says...

6 years ago

2 / 2 directing & technical aspect
0 / 1 story
1 / 1 act I
1 / 1 act II
0 / 1 act III
1 / 1 acting
1 / 1 writing
.5 / 1 originality
0 / 1 stays with you

0 / 1 misc

6.5 out of 10

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faithful soul says...

6 years ago

It's interesting to see how this film has divided people down the middle. Genius satire about the art elite or pretentious drivel? Ironically, the same can be said of art itself - it's all in the eye of the beholder, and is down to personal taste. Personally, I thought the satire worked well, and not as pretentious as others have claimed. It played with interesting themes, doing so with both comedy and tragedy. I thoroughly enjoyed the film, and despite it's length, it probably deserves a rewatch for a more detailed deconstruction.

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AnaEileenDeath says...

6 years ago

Ok, I got the messages, yadda yadda yadda, I just think I will be here contemplating why I spent 2 hours and a half of my life watching this piece of pretentious crap. Really... Gonna watch some (real) comedy now...

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Saint Pauly says...

7 years ago

The Square is the story of the curator for Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art, how his life unravels, and how this unraveling is paralleled in his museum's exhibits. It's a send-up of the art world and beautiful social commentary about inaction where intellectuals and movie goers will see it and say it's a beautiful social commentary about inaction, and then do nothing else.

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cityguide says...

7 years ago

The Square’ Wins the Palme d’Or at Cannes Festival - 2017

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