A weird film which satirizes our time and culture. It has funny as well as dramatic moments. Maybe the scene that will be remembered most is the dinner (shown above) -- a symbolic representation about everything that is wrong with Swedish or indeed European and Western society. The drawbacks: too long (2 hours and a half), too many topics, chaotically represented: the falsities of multiculturalism, the feminist follies, the alienation, the emptiness of modern art -- only one or two of these should have been selected. What I very strongly disliked is the blend between realism and surrealism, which in my opinion, does not work well. I was especially irritated by the ape in the flat. I think this movie has too many flaws for a Palme dÓr and I think it does not deserve it.
Review of The Square
