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Mood:
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- CouplesLeadershipPoliticsCouple RelationsSexual RelationsWorkplace SituationsDishonestyLove and Romance more...
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- Contemporary
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The Boss of it All, 2006
Danish, Icelandic, English, Russian
Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Italy, France, Norway, Finland, Germany
Profile of The Boss of it All
The Boss of it All can be described as clever, witty, and humorous. The plot revolves around couples, leadership, and workplace situations. The main genres are comedy, foreign, and drama. In approach, The Boss of it All is realistic. It is set, at least in part, in an office. It takes place in contemporary times.
Summary of The Boss of it All
Controversial yet always-interesting filmmaker Lars von Trier takes a surprising turn with THE BOSS OF IT ALL. Von Trier shackles his film to a traditional narrative structure, hitting cinematic heights he's been unable to reach since early efforts such as THE IDIOTS and BREAKING THE WAVES. Indeed, moviegoers who felt alienated by esoteric works such as DOGVILLE and MANDERLAY should find themselves on more comfortable ground here. THE BOSS OF IT ALL is set in Denmark, and revolves around Ravn (Peter Gantzler), the unassertive founder of a popular technology company. Ravn has invented a fictional, svengali-like boss ("Svend") of the company, whom he claims is pulling the strings from America. In fact, Svend is a front that the lily-livered Ravn uses whenever he has to make an unpopular decision. But when Ravn decides to sell the company, he has to corral an unemployed actor, Kristoffer (Jens Albinus), into playing Svend, thus introducing him to a group of co-workers who all have wildly different expectations of what this shadowy figure will be like.
The strength in von Trier's film lies in the subtle interplay between Gantzler and Albinus. Albinus's "Svend" gets into a mind-boggling array of tangled and complicated situations with Ravn's co-workers, and his woeful yet hilariously overwrought acting really hits some comic high points as the movie unravels. Von Trier shoots in a "mockumentary" style which is sure to draw comparisons to both the British and U.S. versions of THE OFFICE, but THE BOSS OF IT ALL is really a work that inhabits its own peculiar universe, standing as a fine testament to a director who is not afraid to confound, surprise, and even alienate his own audience.
Details
| Language: | Danish, Icelandic, English, Russian |
| Country: | Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Italy, France, Norway, Finland, Germany |
| Release date: | 13 April 2007 |
| Runtime: | 99 min |
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as Ravn
as Direktøren for det hele / Kristoffer / Svend E
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Critics Reviews
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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- by: Stephen Cole
The New York Times
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- by: Stephen Holden
Users Reviews
- 29.March.2010
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- by: Democritus
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