Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, Terry Notary, Christopher Læssø, Lise Stephenson Engström, Lilianne Mardon |
| Director |
Ruben Östlund |
| Screenplay | Ruben Östlund |
| Cinematography | Fredrik Wenzel |
| Editing | Jacob Secher Schulsinger, Ruben Östlund |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2017 |
| Produced by | Consortium of European companies |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Frequent Strong impact language uses the full range of crude language available. It is used as a manner of speech and/or at times in a demeaning or insulting manner. This is not suitable for children as they may try to emulate it which could be socially and psychologically damaging to them. Therefore it could have disturbing consequences. |
| Nudity | None (sic) |
| Sex | None (sic) |
| Violence | Fairly Frequent and Moderate Violence is mostly low in impact except for the few scenes where either women and/or children are threatened or hurt either emotionally or physically. This is not suitable for children who may be disturbed by the content. |
| Prejudice | Frequent Moderate Impact prejudice is thematic with regards to how the rich and affluent treat people in marginalised groups including children from a different class structure as themselves. The affluent also become victims of scams inflicted on them by con-artists. Nobody wins here. This is not suitable for children who do not have the cognitive development abilities to deal effectively with these complicated life experience issues that could prematurely expose them to adult life experiences. |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Note: American reviews refer to scenes of nudity and sex. Contains scenes of Sexual Violence. Ed. The Square is an art-house film exploring different cultures of exsistence within an art genre. It highlights aesthetic culture, intellectualism, determining between humanity and non-humanity, art and non-art, exhibition and non-exhibition. The context of the film observes art preservation looking at life through the artists lens. This edgy drama deals with pushing the limits from freedom of expression to how to determine when things have gone too far. An art curator Christian is robbed by scam artists at the beginning of the film. In trying to get his belongings back, the rest of the film deals with the repercussions of his actions, which includes the exploration of life of the affluent versus the minority marginalised groups, as well as the inversion of those who are robbed and the pain and violation it causes versus the need to rob, scam or con in order to survive. |
| These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines. | |
| R: Restricted | Rated R for language, some strong sexual content, and brief violence. |
| Runtime | 151 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
| Suggested age limit 16 + |
Positive messages |
Positive role models |
Violence |
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Consumerism |
Drinking, drugs, smoking |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Metacritic.com 33 critics | 15 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 189 critics | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer  The Square finds writer-director Ruben Östlund as ambitious as ever -- and delivering an unforgettably unusual work whose challenging themes pay thought-provoking dividends. | 17 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 14 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Michael Ordona Language, sex, violence in award-winning dark comedy. | 10 |  |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 81 users | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 3873 users | 13 |  |
| IMDB 40159 Netizens | 15 | |
| The Movie DB Community | 14 | |
Average .. 71% | 14 | |