Iben hjejle the boss
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Even if it is a comedy and Lars von Trier himself in the start of the movie tells we can lean back and enjoy being entertained, the film has a message that - if you are open to it - will give you something to think about regarding moral and ethics. I won't give anything more of the plot away, as this would entail spoiling its central twists and surprises.
Holding oneself accountable for one's actions - how do you deal with that when the insatiable need to feel loved and approved of takes over? Unlike Breaking the Waves, it doesn't revel in victimising its lead character. That helped Hjejle land a role opposite John Cusack in the Stephen Frears-directed "High Fidelity" (2000).
It's von Trier back to the basics, but not that easy to grip for people outside a Scandinavian environment.
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Lars von Trier has done a modern comedy that gives (me) associations to the plays of the Norwegian-Danish comedy writer Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754).
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While Hjejle kept busy in her homeland in the mid-2000s, she only had a brief brush with a return to America in the Daniel Craig-starring "Defiance" (2008).Good entertainment and fairly original.
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Not one of Lars von Trier's more important works, but it's worth a watch
Lars von Trier's Danish-language comedy. In fact, I would argue that even as a comedy, and thus deprived of the devices that normally make drama seem more powerful, this packed a punch on a par with Dancer in the Dark or Dogville, if not more.
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I also enjoyed the cinematography, strictly hand-held digital camera with a purposefully "rudimentary" editing. In fact, on hearing this I shifted rather uncomfortably in my seat, wondering what the Master Misanthrope had in store for me this time.
The basic plot: When Ravn, an IT company owner decides to sell his business off to a moody and irritable Icelandic businessman, he hires an actor to pretend that he's the Boss of Bosses.
He had always told his staff that the "real" big boss (obviously non-existent) resided in America and never came to Denmark. When they see DKK4,000,000 in the bag, they keep it for themselves and head for Spain. Unlike Dogville, it doesn't present a world in which moral nihilism is the only reality. Cue also some inevitable office politics, involving the company's employees reacting to their new-found, flesh-and-blood figure-head, on whom they hang all their hopes and frustrations.
If this sounds like a Danish version of the British TV series "The Office" (remade also in America), please think again - the movie goes well beyond milking the comic potential of a typical contemporary office environment.
The Boss of It All
Original title: Direktøren for det hele
An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.
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Everybody thinks they could make a good and fair boss...
It poses questions on what leadership really means. Highly recommended, on several different levels.
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von Trier at his most Danish
This will be a little hard to understand, for those who are not familiar with Scandinavian office culture and enterprise democracy. "The Boss of it all" has divided the audience in Denmark in 2 groups a group who absolutely dislikes the movie and a group which is rather enchanted with it.
He employs a hooker as maid.