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Aro Recommended Boss Of It All, The

 

aka: Direktøren for det hele
Denmark 2006, 99 minutes
Dir. Lars Von Trier
In Danish, Icelandic, Russian with English subtitles
Rating: [R]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Comedy

Topics: Satire, Business & Economics.

 

Aroview: Crude, but refreshing change of pace from perennial troublemaker Lars von Trier sees the Danish renegade chance his arm at a corporate-styled comedy, satirizing office politics and workplace relations to humorous effect.

While the comedic elements occasionally fall flat, von Trier gets good mileage out of his screwball premise, where a dubious actor is hired to stand in for the chief executive of an ailing IT firm. Turning increasingly absurdist, the film is ultimately too freewheeling to successfully deliver its three-act comedy routine, although does justify its shapelessness through its director’s incorrigible experimental streak (the bizarre angles, for instance, can be explained by the use of a computerized camera dubbed “Automavision”).

NZ International Film Festival 2007

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  • cast and/or crew interviews
  • 'making of' documentary / featurette
  • trailers
  • aspect ratio: 16:9
 

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