The Square (2017 film)
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| Directed by | Ruben Östlund |
| Produced by | Erik Hemmendorff |
| Screenplay by | Ruben Östlund |
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| Cinematography | Fredrik Wenzel |
| Edited by | Jacob Secher Schulsinger |
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Plattform Produktion
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| Distributed by | TriArt Film (Sweden) |
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142 minutes |
| Country | Sweden Germany France Denmark |
| Language | Swedish English Danish |
| Budget | $5.5 million |
The Square is a 2017 Swedish satirical drama film directed by Ruben Östlund and starring Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, and Terry Notary. The film is about publicity surrounding an art installation, and was partly inspired by an installation Östlund and producer Kalle Boman had made. It was shot in Gothenburg, Stockholm and Berlin.
The film was entered into the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, where it received positive reviews and won the Palme d'Or. It was subsequently selected for the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
In the aftermath of the abolition of the Monarchy of Sweden, the has been converted into an art museum. Christian is a curator at the museum, who finds his progressive world view shaken when his mobile phone is stolen. While managing a space set to show a new installation piece, he finds a public relations company to promote the installation, creating a great deal of chaos.
The story for the film was conceived when director Ruben Östlund and producer Kalle Boman entered an installation into the Vandalorum Museum in Värnamo in 2014. In their artists' statement, they wrote "The Square is a sanctuary of trust and caring. Within it we all share equal rights and obligations."
In one scene, a man with Tourette's syndrome yells at a reporter. Östlund said this was inspired by a true incident at a Swedish theatre, and was depicted without fear of insensitivity, since he said all people are satirized in his work. The beginning of the film was also inspired by a true incident, when in Gothenburg Östlund saw a woman run to a man, saying someone was going to kill her. Another man arrived and yelled. It turned out to be a ploy, in which Östlund's cellphone was stolen. While working on the screenplay, Östlund visited numerous art galleries.
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