Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund wins Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or for The Square (Photograph by Brian D. Johnson)
The high altar of world cinema climaxed its 70th anniversary edition by awarding its top prize to a ferocious satire that skewers pretension and liberal hypocrisy in the gala art world. Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure) won Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or for The Square, starring Danish actor Claes Bang as a museum director who encounters a firestorm of controversy when his marketing team unleashes a viral social-media campaign to promote an exhibit. The show is a conceptual installation that …read more
Source: Macleans
