The Boss Of It All
What:
The Boss Of It All
Where:
Melbourne International Film Festival
When:
Fri Aug 3, 9.15pm, the Regent, 195 Collins St, Melbourne
Fri Aug 10, 5pm, the Regent, 195 Collins St, Melbourne
Tickets:
here
Watch The Trailer:
here
Win:
We a double pass to give away for each screening date. Just email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘Who’s the boss?’. Remember to state which date you want to go.
Lars Von Trier is not a happy camper. The sadistic tendencies of his anti-cinema have resulted in wildly bleak films that are often fascinating in theory, but not nearly so interesting to actually sit through. When he introduces his latest, The Boss Of It All, by announcing it won’t be preachy – “It’s a comedy and it’s harmless” – should we believe him?
An actor is hired to play the part of an imaginary CEO, invented to spare the real boss any backlash from unpopular decisions. As he improvises his way through theoffice, sinking more deeply into the office politics, the film becomes laugh-out-loud funny. It also comes with a new gimmick: Automavision, a computer that selects the cinematography from multiple cameras.Amazingly, this works, and the jump-cuts giving the film a choppy,magnetic immediacy.
Von Trier has recently statedthat depression has left him like "a blank sheet of paper" and hedoesn’t know if he’ll ever return to cinema. There’s a joy in The Boss Of It All,but there’s bitterness too, as it mockingly weighs ‘difficult’ art versus broad sentimentality. Von Trier is right about it being comedy,but it’s not so harmless.
Format: Festival
Mood: Whimsical
Keywords: Lars Von Trier, Comedy
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