The Good Boss (15A)

115 mins - Spain 2021 - Subtitles - Dir: Fernando León de Aranoaa
Starring: Javier Bardem, Manolo Solo and Almudena Amor
 
Javier Bardem excels as a corporate boss, who will tell you he’s your best friend just as he’s stabbing you in the back, in this ruthlessly funny corporate satire. Blanco (Bardem) initially appears to be a kindly, if bland, owner of a factory. ‘Don’t treat me like a boss’, he gestures to his employees. But behind the genial façade lies a selfish profiteer. Blanco is all smiles for a visiting journalist and is intent on keeping morale up so he can win a government award. But when he makes a long-serving employee redundant and takes advantage of his latest intern, cracks start to appear in the industrialist’s world.
 
“A satisfying parable of the inherent rottenness of capitalist greed” Austin Chronicle