The Square (2017)

This is a movie that I found to be disturbing on a number of levels.  It demonstrates the value of seeking out the Best Foreign Language Oscar nominees, or finding the international film winners that never really get a staging in the United States.
The writer and director of this film,  Ruben Östlund seems fascinated by the life cycle of a bad decision. A well-to-do museum curator Christian (Claes Bang) who is handsome, successful, and likable is at the center of this movie, and the bad decision is his to make.  His cell phone is stolen and he takes it upon himself to get restitution.  He knows the building it is in, so he writes a threatening letter, and stuffs every mailbox in the building, thereby setting a ball of consequences in motion.
Then there is the question of what is art.  The “square” of the film’s title is a new art installation, a simple physical border (four meters by four meters) that’s etched in front of the museum and proclaimed to be “a sanctuary of trust and caring ... within it we all share equal rights and obligations.”  The ramifications of Christian's distraction with his escalating mistake is to allow a number of future mistakes to occur, Why do people get away with behavior if it is thought to be art?  Why does no one act?  The movie is a bit of performance art itself, raising more questions than it answers.