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Ostensibly Von Trier's least bizarre film, The Boss of It All is a moderately amusing workplace farce....his modesty, he claims, has led him to invent a permanently absent top dog, the "Boss of It All".....But its supposed existence puts the film in a very peculiar bracket, making it not so much cinema as conceptual art.....perfectly suited to a film about an IT firm -....that his most audience-friendly film should also be his most recondite dead end..... ... Full Review

When corporate factors force him to produce this boss in person, Ravn hires Kristoffer (Jens Albinus), a pretentious out-of-work actor, to pretend to be this chief executive.....the cinematography has weird jump-cuts and faulty framings..... ... Full Review

This film won't be worth a moment's reflection," Von Trier declares in an opening voiceover. But they do give proceedings a reckless, uninhibited quality that is mirrored by the storyline's amusing twists and general feel of a world out of whack. ... Full Review

Most of the laughs in Boss of It All are thanks to the uniformly terrific cast (especially Jens Albinus in the lead, no doubt a to-die-for role, and Iben Hjejle, who my wife correctly identified as John Cusack's on-again off-again flame in High Fidelity ).....This is the sort of middling, sporadically funny, sporadically dull art-house comedy....When you think of Lars von Trier, light-hearted, sitcom-ready humor is just about the last thing that comes to mind..... ... Full Review

That it's also his funniest movie is a definite plus.....Lars von Trier has a problem with authority, especially when it's his own.....it'll be a fitting capper for the most ingenious, frustrating and pig-headed body of work by any contemporary director..... ... Full Review

And it isn't much of a surprise that his first comedy, about an actor hired to impersonate a non-existent company owner in order to help the real owner to sell his failing firm, is like a poor rerun of The... ... Full Article

According to director Lars von Trier, there'll be "no preaching or swaying of opinion" in his latest film. "It's a comedy, and harmless as such," he explains in an opening voiceover. ... Full Article

When you think of Lars von Trier, light-hearted, sitcom-ready humor is just about the last thing that comes to mind. Thus, The Boss of It All , a tossed-off look at white collar workplace dynamics clearly indebted to both TV... ... Full Article

A conceptual comedy by Lars von Trier is not a prospect to gladden the heart. This takes off from a quite promising idea - the owner of an IT firm wants to sell up, but anticipating hostility from his staff... ... Full Article

From the Chicago Reader In this screwball office comedy (2006), Dogma 95 founder Lars von Trier has abandoned handheld cameras for a new process, Automavision, where computerized cameras are programmed to introduce random changes during shots. ... Full Article

Because films travel from festival to festival before landing a theatrical or DVD distribution deal (if it's lucky), I think it's good to publish reactions to as many festival films by title. ... Full Article