A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
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- 33 wins & 46 nominations total
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- TriviaThe crowd Oleg was taunting in the dinner scene, throwing water over and pushing around, were in fact drawn from the actual ranks of Sweden's 1 percent, including some of the country's wealthiest art patrons ("They were so into it," Terry Notary said).
- GoofsIn the closing titles of "The Girl With A Kitten" clip, the Hebrew version is wrong: the English noun "square" appears in Hebrew as "an open space in a city" rather than "rectangle with all sides equal").
- ConnectionsFeatured in 75th Golden Globe Awards (2018)
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Performed by Fedde Le Grand, Ossama Al Sarraf and Ned Shepard (as Sultan + Shepard)
Written by Ossama Al Sarraf, James Bratton, Kelly Charles, Robin Morssink, Fedde Le Grand and Ned Shepard
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Hard to classify this movie, after watching it at the New Zealand International Film Festival just a few hours ago.
Humorous? Certainly. In some moments even hilarious. Yet, this movie has some very u-boat layers to its seemingly light-hearted making-fun-of-arts theme. Even though it is tempting, I am not going to be an artsy-fartsy-smartarse trying to deliver a holistic explanation of this flick (all I'm saying is: "Swedish society" and "human nature").
The acting is superb and sometimes massively ("Oleg-style") impressive.
My only criticism is that the movie is too long. Clipping some minutes here, and some minutes there, would have streamlined the viewing experience.
A complex movie. Recommended to watch whenever you have some spare brain capacity at hands. ;-)
Humorous? Certainly. In some moments even hilarious. Yet, this movie has some very u-boat layers to its seemingly light-hearted making-fun-of-arts theme. Even though it is tempting, I am not going to be an artsy-fartsy-smartarse trying to deliver a holistic explanation of this flick (all I'm saying is: "Swedish society" and "human nature").
The acting is superb and sometimes massively ("Oleg-style") impressive.
My only criticism is that the movie is too long. Clipping some minutes here, and some minutes there, would have streamlined the viewing experience.
A complex movie. Recommended to watch whenever you have some spare brain capacity at hands. ;-)
- Holger-New-Zealand
- Jul 26, 2017
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- Квадрат
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,502,347
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $74,233
- Oct 29, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $8,588,030
- Runtime2 hours 31 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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