The Boss of It All The Boss of It All

Ravn is the owner of an IT-company. He is afraid of telling bad news to people, so he brings all the bad news as if someone else owns the company and he is only the messenger. When he tries to sell the company to an Icelandic company he gets into trouble. They want to see the owner and do business directly with him. So Ravn hires a cheap actor, Christoffer, to act as CEO.

Jens Albinus Peter Gantzler Benedikt Erlingsson Henrik Prip Mia Lyhne Casper Christensen Louise Mieritz Sofie Gråbøl Anders Hove Lars von Trier Jean-Marc Barr Iben Hjejle Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

Zentropa Productions

drama foreign comedy

95 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Stephen Brown

    Review by Stephen Brown ★★

    Everybody else in the cinema seemed to find it more amusing than I did. Not bad, just not that good either.

  • Andrew Robinson

    Review by Andrew Robinson

    So... Lars von Trier made a comedy... fuck me...

  • inside

    Review by inside

    This is really a satire on the postmodern form of workplace authority, with a clever twist towards the end. The premise of the avant garde actor is inspired and the film is genuinely funny, while very much politically on point.

  • korsti

    Review by korsti ★★½

    Um es pseudointellektuell auszudrücken: Angenehm erfrischendes Zusammenspiel von Objekt- und Metaebene.

  • Cobb

    Review by Cobb ★★★★

    This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Luke Richardson

    Review by Luke Richardson ★★

    The strangely subdued blip in Lars von Trier's career. This screwball comedy has some of the best Danish acting talent, but a storyline that is rather tedious.

    Read the full review here:
    366movies.com/2012/11/28/324boss/

  • Ben Trout

    Review by Ben Trout ★★★½

    Von Trier bookends the film, as pretentiously as the actor in the center ring of it all, by telling us that we are not to read the ensuing "comedy" in the typically intellectual terms we'd nearly trip over ourselves to apply to one of his films. No, in point of fact, he's arrested his own control by using Automavision, a process that allows a computer to select camera angles and movements at random and apply them (the idea being, much like the concept of his Dogme films, to free art from its over-simulated shackles). The result is an aggressively obtuse visage, almost purposefully artsy - without being purposeful, of course - and nothing if not a rider, tacked on to…

  • Kim

    Review by Kim ★★½

    not a movie. it's just a joke

  • Levi Harrison

    Review by Levi Harrison

    Just watched Lars Von Trier's THE BOSS OF IT ALL. This is a movie about an actor that gets hired to play the part of a CEO of an actual company, due to the fact that the real CEO has never revealed himself to anyone. The company is in the middle of a deal to be sold, and the actor needs to fill the role of the CEO in order to close the deal. This is supposed to be a comedy, but you will barely find yourself laughing during this movie...not one of Von Trier's finer moments. The movie was shot using Automavision, which is something Von Trier invented where a computer randomly decides the camera angle, sound level, and lighting; Von Trier's entire career is full of experiments like this that don't work.