The Boss of It All
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 18, 2007
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Ifc
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jens Albinus, Peter Gantzler & Fridrik Thor Fridriksson | |
Performer: | Iben Hjejle & Jean-Marc Barr | |
Directed by | Lars von Trier | |
Screenwriting by | Lars von Trier | |
Produced by | Vibeke Windelov |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
Von Trier has evidently been watching The Office, and replicates both its soulless setting and fly-on-the-desk camera-style, not to mention the Brentian fear of being unpopular.
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Independent (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
In some ways, I enjoyed this movie more than any of his features, and yet it's sad that he has drawn in his horns so much.
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Guardian
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A fresh, nimble-footed departure from one of the world's greatest living directors.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
If The Boss of It All is forgettable, it's not for its airiness, but for its failed artiness, and for von Trier's failure to be true to his art.
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Stop Smiling
Rating: 3/5 --
Less contentious than typical Von Trier but also less satisfying; fun but perhaps too stiflingly clever to allow the comedy room to breathe.
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Film4
Rating: 2/5 --
A bit of a shambles, but perhaps in its lack of von Trier's usual pretensions will lie the charm of this film for some.
London Evening Standard
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] surprisingly tight scripted, deliciously played workplace farce....Springing twists to the end, this is dark but truthful comedy.
Empire
Product Description:
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.
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.
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