The Boss of It All

Name: The Boss of It All
Genre: Comedy
Released: May 23, 2007
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Jens Albinus, Peter Gantzler

2007

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IFC Films | Release Date: May 23, 2007 | Not Rated

Starring: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Jens Albinus, Peter Gantzler

Summary: In this comedy, the owner of an IT firm wants to sell up. There is just one problem: back when he started the firm he invented a fictitious boss to hide behind when there were unpopular decisions to make. The would-be buyers insist on negotiating with the boss in the flesh and so the owner resorts to employing a down-at-heel actor to playIn this comedy, the owner of an IT firm wants to sell up. There is just one problem: back when he started the firm he invented a fictitious boss to hide behind when there were unpopular decisions to make. The would-be buyers insist on negotiating with the boss in the flesh and so the owner resorts to employing a down-at-heel actor to play the part. Suddenly, the actor discovers that he is a pawn in a game that sorely tests his (lack of) moral force. (IFC First Take)… Expand

Director: Lars von Trier

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

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Marc Mohan

The first of von Trier's efforts to be certifiably farcical. Read full review

Premiere Glenn Kenny

The result is a kind of very faux documentary style, which, along with the subject matter, has suggested to some the influence of the BBC television series "The Office." Von Trier says he's never seen an episode, and I believe him. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Funny is not a word often used to describe von Trier's output, but "Boss" definitely is that, thanks to a breezy script and a bright cast. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

No one is likely to rank "Boss" on the same level as his more somber and ambitious efforts, but Von Trier admirers will be pleased to discover that, even while working in a far less consequential mode than usual, the ever-uninhibited filmmaker's distinctive flair is in full force. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

For all its slightness, pic is helmer's least pretentious and most sheerly enjoyable for years. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

This satire of empty-suit capitalism has scalding moments, but most of it suggests Being There meets The Office gibberized into theater of the absurd. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

It's a modest and mildly funny effort, with good scenes and touches of incisive satire, but it's not quite funny enough, and it's undermined by its camera technique. Read full review

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DavidR.

Sep 26, 2007

Is Von Trier even trying anymore? Glad to see people have stopped paying attention to his films and are realizing The Idiots was a fluke. Keep Dogme95 back in 1995 when Von Trier was a goat herder and a real filmmaker like Michael Mann was finishing his masterpiece Heat.

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