Film: Surreal satire thinks outside The Square

What starts out as a deadpan comedy of manners mocking the 'my five-year-old could do that' school of contemporary art quickly jumps the fence into the surreal and the absurd

Claes Bang (centre) in The Square

Cinema

The Square: Directed by Ruben Östlund, Nationwide, 15A, Rating: ***

Peter Rabbit: Nationwide, G, Directed by Will Gluck, Rating: *

Before Ruben Östlund’s The Square was a Palme d’Or-winning film, it was actually a physical square: ten metres or so per side, installed by Östlund and his producer Kalle Boman in 2014 in a Sweden museum plaza as a social experiment.

An accompanying brass plaque, reproduced in the film, read “The Square ...