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The owner of an IT firm wants to sell up. The trouble is that when he started his firm he invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed to be taken. When potentia...( read more 
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MCT:September 17, 2008enjoyable danish film from aclaimed director lars von tier, and using all his usuall neat styles, concerning a boss of a company, who is now selling company and who employs a actor during its last week of business, to act as the boss, as hes never made it known he is the owner, due to lack of self esteem, and needs actor to conduct business, it also helps that, hes not been entirely honest in his work,,so the actor gets to work, trying to be all method in his aproach, while not having a clue, but just running along with it,its when the actor gets in with the workers that he will get to see things for how they really are, a well observed comedy/drama, very european in its comedy, some good touches throughout,
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MCT:September 14, 2008Disappointing update to the Dogme school restrictions with an automavision shooting system. Von Trier may have found it an interesting technical exercise but it added nothing to the format for me. The sense of humor is assumably hilarious in Denmark but it didn't tickle me. The plot loses its tenuous grip on reality altogether at the end.
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MCT:June 27, 2008Even when trying to make a frivolous film, Lars Von Trier still makes a minor classic, swimming in themes of pretension and acting, wanting to be liked, the hierarchies of power, exploitation, and cinematic comedy itself. A man who owns a company, wants to sell up, but in is a bind, because he created an imaginary president to take the blame for all stern management decisions, and now his buyer will only speak with the president. He hires an incredibly pretentious actor to do the one time gig, but things go wrong when he accidentally introduces himself to the employees, and has to spend a week riding out the role, till the deal is complete.
There's narration in the opening of the movie about this being a an attempt to make a non-political comedy(it fails), that pokes fun at "artsy -fartsy culture"(success)" and that alone was enough to make me want to stop. But this is the trick of all films by this guy, their grueling at times, but also strangely magnetic, and the end is always, always worth the wait, and there's no difference h ere.
The "Automotovision" is a bit distracting at first, but I forgot it was there for the most part, all of the actors, two from another Trier film "The Idiots", and Iben Hjejle (of High Fidelity), give great performances. Though Trier makes plenty of use of location changes, at ironic times, the cinema, the Mary go round, etc.
Iben Hjejle at one point says "life's like a dogma film, it's hard to hear the words sometimes but there still there", and that's an example of Trier's self mockery as much, as a good rule for viewing the movie in general, don't mind the camera, keep an eye of the characters. Enormously entertaining, and maybe brilliant. -
MCT:May 25, 2008
When distinguished Nordic filmmakers decide they want to make something light, perhaps even funny, they do it in a way that no one else is capable of. This film, made by the only living giant of Scandinavian cinema, succeeds in that rare combination of being hilarious and at the same time deeply thought-provoking. It's a little film, made with "no-name" performers and full of echoes from Dogma-proclamation and it sure does succeed to get a continous laughter from the viewer. Fine work Lars!
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MCT:March 14, 2008DIREKTOREN FOR DET HELE (2006)
directed by Lars Von Trier
starring Jens Albinus, Peter Gantzler, Iben HjejleThere is a window, showed from the outside of a building. The camera's reflection can be seen and Lars Von Trier himself introduces his film, he tells us this is a comedy. His intervention comes back three more times in the film and Im still not sure if any of them were useful. In his first comment, he says his film isnt pretentious, its not, but its close, but its something else, its very European, and pompous.This is the fourth film by Lars Von Trier I try to watch, and the first one I can finish. I never, no matter how bad a film is, stop a movie before its over, but I cant stand Lars Von Trier. I do not dislike his films, he has interesting themes and I respect the man for being a leader in a new style fo cinema. A lot like the French New Wave, Von Trier was one of the leader of a new movement in cinema that inspired a lot of young filmmakers and that is quite something. My only problem is that he brings too much art in his film and so little cinema. Yes, cinema is art, but art doesnt always make good cinema, and that is why I find it hard to appreciate his body of work.
The Boss of it All is a comedy, which is quite unusual for Lars Von Trier, and even if I smiled three or four times throughout the film I didnt really think it was funny. The jokes were there but there was something missing, timming.
A man built a company ten years ago, now he wants to sell it, so he hires an actor to play his boss, cause he always felt too wussy to act like the boss. For ten years he lied to his employees giving them orders, telling them it came from the boss of it all. I thought the film would be about the preparation of the actor to deal the selling properly but instead, the film spends a week or so in the office, with the actor answering plenty of questions, having to deal without any knowledge of what the actual boss told the others about his character. But he gets out of all those situations pretty well. He is a methodic actor, so he tries to build his persona, slowly, but surely, but he is a lousy actor and the kind who are a bit pretentious and he is extremely annoying.
Situations are built to create some funny moments, but none of the characters really get developped and its hard to care about any of them, maybe if we could have known them better, the laugh would have come out, which is almost the case near then end when we at least, got a glimpse of who those people are. Of course its not supposed to be laugh-out-loud funny, its sarcastic and absurd, but the coldness of the acting made it very strange.
The Boss of it All doesnt really have rythm, its slow and short, but it felt longer than Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Its not a bad film, far from that, just a hard one to enjoy, especially if you dont know what to expect, at least I knew with Lars Von Trier attached to it.
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MCT:February 8, 2008I was disappointed after seeing this movie. Clearly Lars von Trier's worst piece of moviemaking. Whenever he makes a new film I am so excited because he's one of those who always makes a hell of a movie. This time however he made a comedy that was too serious or a drama that was too ridiculous. I wasn't even shocked, I felt no tears. That is unlike Von Trier.
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MCT:December 28, 2007
Sti qu'j'aime Lars. Il a une façon de dire et de réaliser unique! The Boss of it all, est une conédie qui se transpose tout doucement en univers semi-dramatique afin d'en tirer une parodie des acteurs dans le milieu cinématographique. Bravo, haha!
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MCT:December 12, 2007Excellent movie! Filmed like a "documentary", it reminds me of the television series "The Office". It's an absurd humour, the characters are over the top ...and hilarious. You have to give this one a try!
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MCT:December 9, 2007
Lars Von Trier goes comedy in the style of The office!! This movie was wonderfully weird and hilarious!
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MCT:November 18, 2007
Hilariously, absurdly, beautifully awkward.
As von Trier said that films should be like a rock in a shoe, this is to a stone to the funny bone... If that analogy makes sense.
The story is creative and very clever and funny, but in a characteristically "depressing" von Trier way.
It has a lot of charm in all its jump-cuts, and confusion at the nonsensical business and wacky employees, and the ambiguously, awkwardly, bittersweet ending.
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MCT:November 4, 2007
Von trier a cette façon de toujours ramener les tangentes de l'histoire à un seul et principal thème: le malaise. Si von Trier parle ici d'une « comédie inintelligente où il n'y a rien à dire », c'est bien entendu en comparaison avec l'univers de ses autres réalisations, et encore là, je ne serais même pas prêt à en dire autant. Certes, le sujet abordé est peut-être moins lourd qu'à l'habitude, mais on retrouve toujours cette idée d'inhumanité chez les personnages de von Trier, une inhumanité auquelle le spectateur est confronté, impuissant.
L'histoire commence alors, comme à son habitude, bien anodinement, pour se métamorphoser en une comédie dramatique incroyablement complexe, complexité qui pourrait bien engendrer la souffrance, voire la mort, chez chacun des personnages. Et j'exagère à peine.
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MCT:November 4, 2007
It's a great idéa and the film has it's moments (quite a few of them actually) but over all the phase is to slow.
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MCT:July 5, 2007
It was funny. At times, VERY funny. However, as one would expect from Lars von Trier, it is experimental. So he takes risks that don't always work. With a shot though.
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MCT:June 9, 2007"Look at me, I'm Lars von Trier, I direct gay porn-like movies, and when I'm not doing that I'm working on my career on beeing the new Britney Spears and playing with Barbie-dolls with my girlfriends, they're SUPER!! Tralalalalalalalala!"
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MCT:May 29, 2007I´m really looking forward to seeing this one. Lars von Trier has stated that he is in some kind of crisis, writers block, that his mind is like a blank page. I hope that this wont be his last movie. He is truly amazing.
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MCT:April 11, 2007
A very special comedy signed Lars von Trier. A different film from his last ones (lighter) but amusing although not shallow. Have fun!
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MCT:March 19, 2007
A very funny Danish film in which the owner has made up a boss and hires an actor to play him, but has ulteriour motives.
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MCT:December 10, 2006
Von Trier tries his hand at comedy and the results are superb! Similar in some ways to the TV series 'The Office' but still uniquely Von Trier with all it's sexual dysfunction and great dialogue there's no mistaking his signature. The two leads in particular are outstanding as are the other actors in this documentary style production. Von Trier uses a computer to pick random choices from the multiple cameras used cementing the docu-look further and divides the film into sections with his own comments. Fortunatly, this is nowhere near as pretentious as it sounds (even if the film doeasn't need it, the idea is solid enough without the need for gimicks) this really is laugh out loud funny and very original! Recommended!
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