The Square
Ruben Östlund

O.V. English | st English

Audiences will laugh through gritted teeth at this withering satire that attacks elitism, arrogance and vanity of every stripe. The winner of the Palme d’or at the last Cannes festival, a fierce, ambitious comedy focusing on human weakness and appalling behaviour, uses scathing humour to mock half-baked artistic concepts. For his latest outing, master of social satire Östlund concocts a story sprinkled with jaw-dropping surprises where altruism and propriety go down in...