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Swedish art gallery satire The Square wins Palme d'Or at Cannes

French movie BPM (Beats Per Minute) comes in second; Sofia Coppola is chosen as best director

Published Mon, May 29, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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THE Square, a Swedish movie about the curator of a museum filled with grotesquely pretentious conceptual art, beat stiff competition to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.

Critics hailed the movie by writer-director Ruben Ostlund as "high-wire cinema" that veers between comedy and thriller with moments of pure surrealism, though some said it could easily have shed part of its 2 hours and 22 minutes running time.

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