Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: The Boss of It All/Direktøren for Det Hele (2006)

12/30/2015

The Boss of It All/Direktøren for Det Hele (2006) - Von Trier's hilarious absurd comedy

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+ Best Comedy of the Year + Best Experimental Movie of the Year + Most Under-appreciated Movie of the Year

The US poster for Lars Von Trier's The Boss of It All

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Mr. Ravn is the boss of an obscure IT company, but for ten years he has pretended that the company had another boss above him. Now he wants to sell the company, so he hires an actor to do his dirty work.

Danish master writer-director Lars Von Trier's (Breaking the Waves (1996)) comical talent is here on its freest display; Boss presents intelligent plays with clichés, perceptions and prejudices, shot in a curious mechanized system named Automavision, which lets a computer randomly select where the camera should be placed.
The very Danish urge for unification and being in agreement socially is dramatized poignantly throughout the film with coldblooded, sharp-toothed glee.
Jens Albinus (The Idiots/Idioterne (1998)) and Peter Gantzler (Italian for Beginners/Italiensk for Begyndere (2000)) and the scenes with the Icelanders are hilarious.
Von Trier's clever, great sense of humor makes one wish he would return to comedy, but his next project is still announced to be the serial killer series, The House That Jack Built, tentatively set for a 2016 release.

Related posts:

Lars Von Trier: Nymphomaniac (2013) short version, vol. 1 & vol. 2, or, Lars Von Trier's Suck It
Melancholia (2011) - Von Trier's heightened reality doomsday reflections
Antichrist (2009) - Von Trier's cabin-in-the-woods psycho-horror

2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]

2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]

2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]

Dear Wendy (2005) - Vinterberg and Von Trier's unpopular, gun-themed megaflop (writer)
Dancer in the Dark (2000) or, Selma the Immigrant

Peter Gantzler and Jens Albinus in Lars Von Trier's The Boss of It All

Cost: 4 mil. $
Box office: 3.1 mil. $
= Huge flop
[Boss was released in Denmark in December to poor reviews and 18k+ admissions, making it 1.1 mil. DKR. It made 51k $ in North America. Its 3 biggest markets were Italy (1.2 mil. $/38.7 % of the total gross), Spain (0.6 mil. $/19.4 %) and Sweden (0.2 mil. $/6.5 %). The rights to a remake have been in development at Universal Pictures since 2011. The Boss of It All is certified fresh at 75 % with a 6.6 critical average on Rotten Tomatoes.]

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12/30/2015

The Boss of It All/Direktøren for Det Hele (2006) - Von Trier's hilarious absurd comedy

2006 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]

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