The Square, Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winning satire about social behaviour, is two hours and 22 minutes long. “He was creating such a complete anarchistic feeling during his concerts, beating up the audience and things like this. I’ve never experienced someone breaking all the rules on how you’re supposed to behave.”The director wanted to create that feeling in his movie, a follow-up to 2014’s similarly satiric Force Majeure. “I wanted a tuxedo-dressed audience in the Lumière [cinema] in Cannes sitting there looking at another tuxedo-dressed audience trying to handle someone who comes into that room and is behaving in a completely different way from themselves.”Specifically, he wanted a performance artist acting like an ape. If it wins, here’s hoping Östlund brings Notary with him to meet another tuxedo-dressed crowd.

Source: National Post November 02, 2017 18:54 UTC