The Boss of it All (Danish: Direktøren for det hele) is a 2006 Danish comedy film directed by Lars von Trier. It is his first film made using the Automavision process, which involves the director choosing the best possible fixed camera position and then allowing a computer to choose when to tilt, pan or zoom.
The owner of an IT company wishes to sell it. But, for years, he has pretended that the real boss lives in America and communicates with th...
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The Boss of it All (Danish: Direktøren for det hele) is a 2006 Danish comedy film directed by Lars von Trier. It is his first film made using the Automavision process, which involves the director choosing the best possible fixed camera position and then allowing a computer to choose when to tilt, pan or zoom.
The owner of an IT company wishes to sell it. But, for years, he has pretended that the real boss lives in America and communicates with the staff only by e-mail. That way, all the unpopular decisions can be attributed to the absentee manager, while all the popular ones to him directly. But now, the prospective buyer insists on meeting the big boss in person. In a panic, the owner hires a failed, over-intellectualizing actor to portray him, and the actor proceeds to improvise all his lines, to the consternation of both the buyer and the company staff, who finally get to meet their ghostly boss.
The reaction to the film has been rather positive. Scoring a 75% average on Rotten...
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