Blanco (Javier Bardem), the charismatic owner of a family-run factory, is under pressure as he covets a local award for business excellence. Everything needs to be perfect! But the veneer of the perfect company cracks as Blanco has to deal with a vengeful fired worker, a depressed supervisor, and an infatuated ambitious intern. The “good boss” shamelessly meddles in his employees’ private lives and crosses every line imaginable, starting a chain reaction with unforeseeable consequences.
“A runaway hit both abroad (shortlisted for the Oscars) and at home (receiving a record 20 nominations at Spain’s Goya Film Awards), The Good Boss is easily one of the funniest films of this (past) year. With a devilishly charming Javier Bardem leading the manufacturing line with a career-high performance, de Aranoa fine-tunes his satire of morally corrupt corporate culture to deliver a laugh-out-loud tragicomedy that hits every target in its social hierarchy.” (Andrei Tănăsescu)
World Premiere: San Sebastian Film Festival, 2021
Director’s bio:
Fernando León de Aranoa (b. 1968) started his career in film as a screenwriter. As a director he made his debut with a dramedy Family in 1996, and received wider acclaim after winning San Sebastian Film Festival in 2002 with another dramedy Mondays in the Sun, which marked the start of his collaboration with Javier Bardem, who also appeared in the more recent titles Loving Pablo (2017), and The Good Boss (2021, “Kino Pavasaris”).
