Elisabeth Moss asks a tough question in this exclusive clip from Cannes winner The Square

Comedies almost never win Cannes; the rationale, one must assume, is they aren’t “serious” enough for the most prestigious film prize in the world. That makes this year’s Palme D’Or winner, The Square, a welcome anomaly. Like writer-director Ruben Östlund’s last movie, Force Majeure, it’s a hilarious savaging of male ego, with the ego in question this time belonging to a fashionably “highbrow” museum curator (Claes Bang) whose actions don’t always square with his stated values. The Square announces its often bone-dry sense of humor—and its pitiless puncturing of pretensions—in its opening scene, when a journalist (Elisabeth Moss, terrific as always) puts our main character on the spot about some of the language in his publicity materials.