The Square

Ruben Ostlund · 2017 CE · Film · Nordic · Contemporary

The curator of a Stockholm museum is preparing an installation about trust and altruism when his phone and wallet are lifted in a piece of street theatre, and he retaliates by posting an accusing letter through every door of the block he traces them to. A boy from that block wants an apology. The dinner with the performance artist as an ape is the sequence everyone describes afterwards.

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