REinvent International Sales has boarded Trine Piil’s next film “Nothing,” a coming-of-age thriller based on
Danish author Janne Teller’s bestselling novel by the same name.
“Nothing” was published in more than 30 territories and has so far sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide, including 500.000 in Germany. The film will tell the story of Pierre Anthon and his classmates who have just started 8th grade. One day, Pierre decides to quit school and moves up in a tree, declaring that life has no meaning. His classmates are shaken by Pierre’s decision and start gathering their most valuable belongings in a “heap of meaning” that will convince Pierre that he is wrong. But the innocent offerings soon turns into a spiral of psychological violence, with children testing their limits and making increasingly painful sacrifices.
Piil penned the adaptation and has directed the film with Seamus McNally, an American director and acting coach.
Danish author Janne Teller’s bestselling novel by the same name.
“Nothing” was published in more than 30 territories and has so far sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide, including 500.000 in Germany. The film will tell the story of Pierre Anthon and his classmates who have just started 8th grade. One day, Pierre decides to quit school and moves up in a tree, declaring that life has no meaning. His classmates are shaken by Pierre’s decision and start gathering their most valuable belongings in a “heap of meaning” that will convince Pierre that he is wrong. But the innocent offerings soon turns into a spiral of psychological violence, with children testing their limits and making increasingly painful sacrifices.
Piil penned the adaptation and has directed the film with Seamus McNally, an American director and acting coach.
- 1/19/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Bankside will launch sales at this week’s virtual AFM on Danish drama Rose from BAFTA-winning director Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo). The film is currently shooting in Paris and eastern Denmark.
Starring BAFTA winner Sofie Gråbøl (The Killing), the Danish-language film is set over the course of one week and follows two sisters, Inger and Ellen, and how their relationship is challenged on an anticipated coach trip to Paris.
When Inger announces her struggles with mental health to the group, the sisters are faced with pity from some but discrimination from others. On arrival in Paris, it soon becomes clear that Inger has a hidden agenda concerning a figure from her past, ultimately involving the entire group in her hunt for answers.
Oplev’s films include Daniel (2019), Speed Walking (2014), The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009) and Worlds Apart (2008). His TV work includes Flatliners in...
Starring BAFTA winner Sofie Gråbøl (The Killing), the Danish-language film is set over the course of one week and follows two sisters, Inger and Ellen, and how their relationship is challenged on an anticipated coach trip to Paris.
When Inger announces her struggles with mental health to the group, the sisters are faced with pity from some but discrimination from others. On arrival in Paris, it soon becomes clear that Inger has a hidden agenda concerning a figure from her past, ultimately involving the entire group in her hunt for answers.
Oplev’s films include Daniel (2019), Speed Walking (2014), The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009) and Worlds Apart (2008). His TV work includes Flatliners in...
- 11/10/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Alexander Dreymon and Rutger Hauer are to star in The Last Kingdom.
Filming has begun on the BBC Two adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Tales, in which Matthew Macfadyen and David Dawson also feature.
The series of historical adventure novels penned by the Sharpe creator will be adapted by Good Cop writer Stephen Butchard.
Eight-part drama The Last Kingdom - named for the first book in the series - will be made by Downton Abbey producers Carnival Films.
Emily Cox, Ian Hart (Boardwalk Empire), Tobias Santelmann (Kon-Tiki), Thomas W. Gabrielsson (A Royal Affair), Peter Gantzler (A-klassen), Joseph Millson (Penny Dreadful), Alexandre Willaume, Rune Temte, and Henning Valin Jakobsen, Tom Taylor, Jocelyn Macnab and Madeleine Power also star.
Set in the year 872, the show will follow Uhtred - a hero raised by the same Vikings who slaughtered his Saxon parents.
"Cornwell's Saxon novels combine historical figures and events with fiction in an utterly compelling way,...
Filming has begun on the BBC Two adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Tales, in which Matthew Macfadyen and David Dawson also feature.
The series of historical adventure novels penned by the Sharpe creator will be adapted by Good Cop writer Stephen Butchard.
Eight-part drama The Last Kingdom - named for the first book in the series - will be made by Downton Abbey producers Carnival Films.
Emily Cox, Ian Hart (Boardwalk Empire), Tobias Santelmann (Kon-Tiki), Thomas W. Gabrielsson (A Royal Affair), Peter Gantzler (A-klassen), Joseph Millson (Penny Dreadful), Alexandre Willaume, Rune Temte, and Henning Valin Jakobsen, Tom Taylor, Jocelyn Macnab and Madeleine Power also star.
Set in the year 872, the show will follow Uhtred - a hero raised by the same Vikings who slaughtered his Saxon parents.
"Cornwell's Saxon novels combine historical figures and events with fiction in an utterly compelling way,...
- 11/24/2014
- Digital Spy
A large international cast has been announced for the upcoming big-budget historical drama series "The Last Kingdom" for BBC America, BBC Two and Carnival Films.
The eight-episode series, an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's best-selling books "The Saxon Stories," will combine real historical figures and events with fictional characters during the 9th century reign of Alfred the Great, the Wessex king who united many separate kingdoms to fight off a Viking invasion.
Rutger Hauer, Alexander Dreymon ("American Horror Story: Coven"), Matthew Macfadyen ("Ripper Street"), Ian Hart ("Boardwalk Empire"), David Dawson ("Ripper Street"), Emily Cox ("The Silent Mountain"), Tobias Santelmann ("Kon-Tiki"), Thomas W. Gabrielsson ("A Royal Affair"), Peter Gantzler ("Italian For Beginners), Joseph Millson ("Penny Dreadful"), Alexandre Willaume ("Over The Edge"), Rune Temte ("The Accident"), and Henning Valin Jakobsen ("The Bridge/Bron") will star.
Shooting is underway in Hungary and the UK. Stephen Butchard is adapting the script while Nigel Marchant...
The eight-episode series, an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's best-selling books "The Saxon Stories," will combine real historical figures and events with fictional characters during the 9th century reign of Alfred the Great, the Wessex king who united many separate kingdoms to fight off a Viking invasion.
Rutger Hauer, Alexander Dreymon ("American Horror Story: Coven"), Matthew Macfadyen ("Ripper Street"), Ian Hart ("Boardwalk Empire"), David Dawson ("Ripper Street"), Emily Cox ("The Silent Mountain"), Tobias Santelmann ("Kon-Tiki"), Thomas W. Gabrielsson ("A Royal Affair"), Peter Gantzler ("Italian For Beginners), Joseph Millson ("Penny Dreadful"), Alexandre Willaume ("Over The Edge"), Rune Temte ("The Accident"), and Henning Valin Jakobsen ("The Bridge/Bron") will star.
Shooting is underway in Hungary and the UK. Stephen Butchard is adapting the script while Nigel Marchant...
- 11/24/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
We're currently balls deep in the Cannes Film Festival, where films from across the globe are being shopped around. One such horror film which has just come to our attention hails from Denmark, and we've got all the info for ya today. Read on!
Per Bloody Disgusting, Danish horror flick Danny's Doomsday is up for grabs at the Cannes market, which was directed by Martin Barnewitz. It's the second feature from Barnewitz, who previously made his directorial debut with 2007's Room 205.
William Jønk Nielsen, Thomas Garvey, Peter Gantzler and Lars Mikkelsen star, and you'll find the plot crunch below!
Synopsis
Due to climate change a new race of flesh eating predators arise, who invade and eat everything living on earth. In a residential neighborhood in a Danish suburb nightmare like scenes are being experienced first hand through the eyes of two teenage brothers, who can’t stand each other, but...
Per Bloody Disgusting, Danish horror flick Danny's Doomsday is up for grabs at the Cannes market, which was directed by Martin Barnewitz. It's the second feature from Barnewitz, who previously made his directorial debut with 2007's Room 205.
William Jønk Nielsen, Thomas Garvey, Peter Gantzler and Lars Mikkelsen star, and you'll find the plot crunch below!
Synopsis
Due to climate change a new race of flesh eating predators arise, who invade and eat everything living on earth. In a residential neighborhood in a Danish suburb nightmare like scenes are being experienced first hand through the eyes of two teenage brothers, who can’t stand each other, but...
- 5/20/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
by Nick Schager
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by Mikkel Norgaard's bizarrely outrageous Danish comedy Klown.]
Lars von Trier shoots The Boss of it All with a camera system dubbed "Automavision" that allows him to select camera set-ups and then let the camera itself (via computer) decide when to move, adjust and edit—a system that's as random and chaotic as its bonkers story itself. Operating as both a straightforward workplace comedy and an off-kilter deconstruction of that genre, von Trier's film concerns an unnamed Danish company run by Ravn (Peter Gantzler), a monotonous milieu that's thrown into deadpan turmoil thanks to Ravn's decision to sell the company to gruff, profane Icelandic businessman Finnur (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson). The catch is that, for years, Ravn has operated as a tyrant, while passing the buck for his callous decisions to an imaginary superior, and when it comes time to sign the firm away, he hires a floundering actor named Kristoffer (Jens Albinus) to pose as...
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by Mikkel Norgaard's bizarrely outrageous Danish comedy Klown.]
Lars von Trier shoots The Boss of it All with a camera system dubbed "Automavision" that allows him to select camera set-ups and then let the camera itself (via computer) decide when to move, adjust and edit—a system that's as random and chaotic as its bonkers story itself. Operating as both a straightforward workplace comedy and an off-kilter deconstruction of that genre, von Trier's film concerns an unnamed Danish company run by Ravn (Peter Gantzler), a monotonous milieu that's thrown into deadpan turmoil thanks to Ravn's decision to sell the company to gruff, profane Icelandic businessman Finnur (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson). The catch is that, for years, Ravn has operated as a tyrant, while passing the buck for his callous decisions to an imaginary superior, and when it comes time to sign the firm away, he hires a floundering actor named Kristoffer (Jens Albinus) to pose as...
- 7/30/2012
- GreenCine Daily
Looks like development on that rumored Arrested Development movie [1] will be pushed back once again. Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator of the classic canceled comedy [2], has just signed on to direct The Boss of It All, an American remake of a 2007 film of the same name by controversial director Lars von Trier. The film centers on a man who invents a fictional boss to blame for firing employees but then has to hire an actor to play that boss when the company is sold. Imagine and Universal have teamed up for the project, which will be executive produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. Emma Forrest will write the script. Read more after the jump. The Wrap exclusively [3] broke the news of this project, which has apparently been in development for about a year as a script was outlined. Von Trier's originally film, which only got a limited Us release in...
- 2/23/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Always full of surprises, Lars von Trier moves far from the didactic, this-is-good-for-you medicine of Manderlay and Dogville to a seemingly light comedy, The Boss of It All. Naturally, things are not that simple when dealing with one of Dogma's founding members. In this film, he is, among other things, experimenting with a new (and dubious) camera system; taking shots at pretentious actors (after having worked with and clashed with stars like Nicole Kidman); passing sly moral judgments on globalization; and even having fun with Icelanders.
The film does mark a return to his roots, of sorts. It is in Danish with mostly Danish actors, and eschews allegory for what is remarkably close to screwball comedy. It is a refreshing change, whatever you call it, and marks his most accessible work in years. It has arrived in such an off-hand manner in the U.S. that it may escape the notice of all but the most ardent art house lovers. Too bad. It is certainly a whole lot more enjoyable than Manderlay, which felt like a trip to the dentist.
Von Trier begins with his camera tracking up the side of a soulless office building. His reflection alongside the camera is seen in the windows. Yes, a strange start to a movie, he says, but no worries: This is a comedy and harmless as such. No preaching or swaying of opinion. "This film won't cause you more than a moment's reflection," he concludes.
This fish-out-of-water comedy begins with the fact that Ravn (Peter Gantzler), a longtime director and secret owner of an IT company, is a wuss, so much so that he has created a nonexistent and perpetually absent "boss of it all" to make the unpopular decisions he is afraid to announce to his staff himself. But when he wants to sell the company to a disgruntled Icelander (director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson) -- who despises Danes in the first place -- Ravn suddenly needs that boss to exist, if only to give him the power of attorney to sign papers.
He hires an out-of-work actor, Kristoffer (Jens Albinus). But Kristoffer's line readings are so overdone at the key meeting, the Icelander storms out and demands Kristoffer come to the next meeting, power of attorney be damned. When Kristoffer introduces himself to employees, Ravn has no choice but to let the actor continue in the role for a week.
The problem is the boss of it all is different things to different people, according to the misinformation supplied by Ravn. To one woman he is gay. To another he has proposed marriage. One man, upon meeting him, slugs him. Another woman screams every time the copying machine springs to life.
In a series of skit-like scenes, Kristoffer must sort out the "back story" of his character. As he does so, he comes to like the senior employees and to feel that Ravn may be cheating them.
The comic complications grow quite wonderfully silly, and are aided by the deadpan deliveries of most of the actors. Even better, most of the film takes place in an arid office building bathed in a Nordic gray-green light, which couldn't look more awful.
Of course, the awful look may have something to do with von Trier's new whiz-bang camera system. This film, you understand, was not shot by a cinematographer. No, it was shot by Automavision, which hands control of the camera to a computer program.
This is, media notes explain, "a principle for shooting film developed with the intention of limiting human influence by inviting chance in from the cold." Which explains the odd framings, though not the internal jump cuts within scenes making everything seem unsettled and nervous.
Let's just say the movie is a success but the experiment a failure.
THE BOSS OF IT ALL
IFC First Take
A Zentrope Entertainment 21/Memfis Film International/Slot Machine/Lucky Red production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Lars von Trier
Producers: Meta Louise Foldager, Vibeke Windelov, Signe Jensen
Executive producers: Lene Borglum, Peter Albaek
Director of photography: Automavision
Production designer: Simone Grau
Costume designer: Manon Rasmussen
Editor: Molly M. Stensgaard
Cast:
Kristoffer: Jens Albinus
Ravn: Peter Gantzler
Lise: Iben Hjejle
Nalle: Henrik Prip
Heidi A.: Mia Lyhne
Gorm: Casper Christensen
Mette: Louise Mieritz
Spencer: Jean-Marc Barr
Kisser: Sofie Grabol
Finnur: Fridrick Thor Fredriksson
Running time -- 98 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The film does mark a return to his roots, of sorts. It is in Danish with mostly Danish actors, and eschews allegory for what is remarkably close to screwball comedy. It is a refreshing change, whatever you call it, and marks his most accessible work in years. It has arrived in such an off-hand manner in the U.S. that it may escape the notice of all but the most ardent art house lovers. Too bad. It is certainly a whole lot more enjoyable than Manderlay, which felt like a trip to the dentist.
Von Trier begins with his camera tracking up the side of a soulless office building. His reflection alongside the camera is seen in the windows. Yes, a strange start to a movie, he says, but no worries: This is a comedy and harmless as such. No preaching or swaying of opinion. "This film won't cause you more than a moment's reflection," he concludes.
This fish-out-of-water comedy begins with the fact that Ravn (Peter Gantzler), a longtime director and secret owner of an IT company, is a wuss, so much so that he has created a nonexistent and perpetually absent "boss of it all" to make the unpopular decisions he is afraid to announce to his staff himself. But when he wants to sell the company to a disgruntled Icelander (director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson) -- who despises Danes in the first place -- Ravn suddenly needs that boss to exist, if only to give him the power of attorney to sign papers.
He hires an out-of-work actor, Kristoffer (Jens Albinus). But Kristoffer's line readings are so overdone at the key meeting, the Icelander storms out and demands Kristoffer come to the next meeting, power of attorney be damned. When Kristoffer introduces himself to employees, Ravn has no choice but to let the actor continue in the role for a week.
The problem is the boss of it all is different things to different people, according to the misinformation supplied by Ravn. To one woman he is gay. To another he has proposed marriage. One man, upon meeting him, slugs him. Another woman screams every time the copying machine springs to life.
In a series of skit-like scenes, Kristoffer must sort out the "back story" of his character. As he does so, he comes to like the senior employees and to feel that Ravn may be cheating them.
The comic complications grow quite wonderfully silly, and are aided by the deadpan deliveries of most of the actors. Even better, most of the film takes place in an arid office building bathed in a Nordic gray-green light, which couldn't look more awful.
Of course, the awful look may have something to do with von Trier's new whiz-bang camera system. This film, you understand, was not shot by a cinematographer. No, it was shot by Automavision, which hands control of the camera to a computer program.
This is, media notes explain, "a principle for shooting film developed with the intention of limiting human influence by inviting chance in from the cold." Which explains the odd framings, though not the internal jump cuts within scenes making everything seem unsettled and nervous.
Let's just say the movie is a success but the experiment a failure.
THE BOSS OF IT ALL
IFC First Take
A Zentrope Entertainment 21/Memfis Film International/Slot Machine/Lucky Red production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Lars von Trier
Producers: Meta Louise Foldager, Vibeke Windelov, Signe Jensen
Executive producers: Lene Borglum, Peter Albaek
Director of photography: Automavision
Production designer: Simone Grau
Costume designer: Manon Rasmussen
Editor: Molly M. Stensgaard
Cast:
Kristoffer: Jens Albinus
Ravn: Peter Gantzler
Lise: Iben Hjejle
Nalle: Henrik Prip
Heidi A.: Mia Lyhne
Gorm: Casper Christensen
Mette: Louise Mieritz
Spencer: Jean-Marc Barr
Kisser: Sofie Grabol
Finnur: Fridrick Thor Fredriksson
Running time -- 98 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 6/15/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Lars Von Trier is a polarizing director who makes polarizing films. It seems critics and audiences either love or hate Mr. Von Trier as a director and either love or hate the films he directs. Known for his quirky, phobia-induced behavior, his name brings pretensions to any film he releases. His career has gone through several phases. He debuted with his hypnotic, technically proficient Europa trilogy (The Element of Crime, Epidemic and Zentropa) which were filmed with tight pre-planned shots and obscure lighting schemas. Then he produced the Lynchian-inspired hospital drama The Kingdom (remade later by NBC with Steven King taking dubious amounts of credit). While filming the The Kingdom he took the camera off the cranes and jib-arms, utilizing a strictly hand-held format with final result looking quite verite. Inspired by this experience he went on to find controversial dogma95 movement and dropped a trilogy of films (The Idiots,
- 5/24/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Palm Springs International Film Festival
PALM SPRINGS -- Taking a break between the second and third installments of his "USA: Land of Opportunities" trilogy, Lars von Trier goes for the jocular in "The Boss of It All", a slight and sprightly bit of fun that's not, however, without teeth. The Danish writer-director concocts a sort of Scandi "Office", gathering an able and willing ensemble for what he drolly describes in introductory voice-over as "a comedy, and harmless as such." It's also a delight. The film screened recently at the Palm Springs festival and is scheduled for limited stateside release in May, when it's sure to attract the von Trier faithful.
Avoiding the overt social commentary of the director's most recent work, "Boss" is perhaps closest in focus to "The Five Obstructions", his 2003 docu on the filmmaking process, in which von Trier played a devilishly entertaining game of one-upmanship with director Jorgen Leth. Here he casts a prankster's eye on actorly affectations, the director-actor relationship and the conventions of throwaway entertainment, all while lampooning the collective delusions of corporate culture.
The wonderful Jens Albinu (who starred in von Trier's 1998 comic drama "The Idiots") plays Kristoffer, an actor hired by businessman Ravn (Peter Gantzler) to play the owner of an IT company -- not onstage, but in the boardroom. During negotiations with Icelandic entrepreneur Finnur (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson), who wants to buy the firm, Kristoffer injects meaningful pauses into his "line readings" that all but stop the dealmaking cold. The perpetually unamused Finnur is convinced that all Danes are wacko. He doesn't know the half of it.
Wanting only to be loved, Ravn, a handsome and affable bear of a man, has for 10 years hidden his true status as the company's owner, pretending to be just another manager and inventing via e-mail a distant uberboss named Svend. Earnest thespian Kristoffer steps into the role with almost no "direction" from Ravn, variously dodging and playing along with the projected dreams and hostilities of the staff. Gorm (Casper Christensen) is given to violent outbursts, Mette (Louise Mieritz) is terrified whenever the copier whirs into action, assistant Heidi (Mia Lyhne) harbors deep feelings for Svend, while HR rep Lise (Iben Hjejle) not only encourages office sex but insists on it. Actor and Dogme filmmaking disciple Jean-Marc Barr plays a foreign employee who insists on speaking bungled and indecipherable Danish.
Determined to stay true to his "character," Kristoffer continually invokes one Antonio Stavro Gambini, the playwright he reveres above all others. Ravn, for reasons that become increasingly clear, prefers to keep things on the buzzword level, as vague as possible. Kristoffer hits his stride with some table-turning improv involving contracts.
The understated comic performances serve the material well, while Automavision, the credited cinematographer, keeps things aptly off-center with random computer-automated camera angles -- one of which von Trier calls to our attention as a "pointless zoom."
THE BOSS OF IT ALL
IFC Films/IFC First Take
A Zentropa Entertainments 21/Memfis Film Intl./Slot Machine/Lucky Red production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Lars von Trier
Producers: Meta Louise Foldager, Vibeke Windelov, Signe Jensen
Executive producers: Lene Borglum, Peter Albaek Jensen
Director of photography: Automavision
Costume designer: Manon Rasmussen
Editor: Molly Malene Stensgaard
Cast:
Kristoffer: Jens Albinus
Ravn: Peter Gantzler
Finnur: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Lise: Iben Hjejle
Mette: Louise Mieritz
Heidi A.: Mia Lyhne
Gorm: Casper Christensen
Spencer: Jean-Marc Barr
Interpreter: Benedikt Erlingsson.
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PALM SPRINGS -- Taking a break between the second and third installments of his "USA: Land of Opportunities" trilogy, Lars von Trier goes for the jocular in "The Boss of It All", a slight and sprightly bit of fun that's not, however, without teeth. The Danish writer-director concocts a sort of Scandi "Office", gathering an able and willing ensemble for what he drolly describes in introductory voice-over as "a comedy, and harmless as such." It's also a delight. The film screened recently at the Palm Springs festival and is scheduled for limited stateside release in May, when it's sure to attract the von Trier faithful.
Avoiding the overt social commentary of the director's most recent work, "Boss" is perhaps closest in focus to "The Five Obstructions", his 2003 docu on the filmmaking process, in which von Trier played a devilishly entertaining game of one-upmanship with director Jorgen Leth. Here he casts a prankster's eye on actorly affectations, the director-actor relationship and the conventions of throwaway entertainment, all while lampooning the collective delusions of corporate culture.
The wonderful Jens Albinu (who starred in von Trier's 1998 comic drama "The Idiots") plays Kristoffer, an actor hired by businessman Ravn (Peter Gantzler) to play the owner of an IT company -- not onstage, but in the boardroom. During negotiations with Icelandic entrepreneur Finnur (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson), who wants to buy the firm, Kristoffer injects meaningful pauses into his "line readings" that all but stop the dealmaking cold. The perpetually unamused Finnur is convinced that all Danes are wacko. He doesn't know the half of it.
Wanting only to be loved, Ravn, a handsome and affable bear of a man, has for 10 years hidden his true status as the company's owner, pretending to be just another manager and inventing via e-mail a distant uberboss named Svend. Earnest thespian Kristoffer steps into the role with almost no "direction" from Ravn, variously dodging and playing along with the projected dreams and hostilities of the staff. Gorm (Casper Christensen) is given to violent outbursts, Mette (Louise Mieritz) is terrified whenever the copier whirs into action, assistant Heidi (Mia Lyhne) harbors deep feelings for Svend, while HR rep Lise (Iben Hjejle) not only encourages office sex but insists on it. Actor and Dogme filmmaking disciple Jean-Marc Barr plays a foreign employee who insists on speaking bungled and indecipherable Danish.
Determined to stay true to his "character," Kristoffer continually invokes one Antonio Stavro Gambini, the playwright he reveres above all others. Ravn, for reasons that become increasingly clear, prefers to keep things on the buzzword level, as vague as possible. Kristoffer hits his stride with some table-turning improv involving contracts.
The understated comic performances serve the material well, while Automavision, the credited cinematographer, keeps things aptly off-center with random computer-automated camera angles -- one of which von Trier calls to our attention as a "pointless zoom."
THE BOSS OF IT ALL
IFC Films/IFC First Take
A Zentropa Entertainments 21/Memfis Film Intl./Slot Machine/Lucky Red production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Lars von Trier
Producers: Meta Louise Foldager, Vibeke Windelov, Signe Jensen
Executive producers: Lene Borglum, Peter Albaek Jensen
Director of photography: Automavision
Costume designer: Manon Rasmussen
Editor: Molly Malene Stensgaard
Cast:
Kristoffer: Jens Albinus
Ravn: Peter Gantzler
Finnur: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Lise: Iben Hjejle
Mette: Louise Mieritz
Heidi A.: Mia Lyhne
Gorm: Casper Christensen
Spencer: Jean-Marc Barr
Interpreter: Benedikt Erlingsson.
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/23/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema on Tuesday said it will host the international premiere of Lars von Trier's The Boss of It All during its 35th edition in October. The Danish-language comedy about the owner of a technology company who hides behind a fictitious president to escape difficult managerial decisions features an ensemble cast that includes Jens Albinus, Casper Christensen, Peter Gantzler and Jean-Marc Barr. The Festival du Nouveau Cinema, the rival to the Montreal World Film Festival, is set to run Oct. 18-28.
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