film: The Boss Of It All
The Boss if It All is one of the year’s most unusual comedy DVD releases.
It’s a Danish movie directed by Lars von Trier, arguably the world’s most unusual auteurs.
Don’t let the subtitles put you off though. This is a cracking analysis of life in an office with a delicious twist.
The plot is simple yet quirky. The owner of an IT company wants to sell his firm but has pretended to his staff that he’s a fellow employee. As a result, he has to employ a ludicrous actor to pretend to be the boss.
Go and have a look for yourselves: I think you’ll enjoy it.
I saw this a few years ago (I’d rather not explain how lol) and it is a really good film.
The camera was actually controlled by a computer using a system Triers named ‘Automavision’ where he framed the scene and then let the camera move around as it chose. It is certainly different and a better and more conventional movie would probably have resulted from from a more traditional way of filming but I certainly found it interesting to watch knowing I was seeing what a computer was choosing, not the director.