Leon de Aranoa’s occupational comedy has a streak of black humour a mile wide as the perfect, kindly boss is pushed to extremes to protect the reputation of the firm he’s worked so hard to build. With too much to balance, Blanco finds himself making some regrettable choices. But in the week before the assessment, his shop floor manager has a marital breakdown, a fired employee has set-up a noisy picket at the gate and a worker asks for help to get an errant son out of trouble. With another prestigious award for excellent on the cards and an impending visit from a State committee, scales manufacturer Basculas Blanco needs everything and everyone in line to guarantee success. This nicely pitched tale of corporate politics and human fallibility has just enough morality to make any manager worry about helping their employees too much. Writer and Director: Fernando León de Aranoaįor a manager balancing the needs of the business with those of your staff is never easy, and for Javier Bardem’s factory head it proves an almost fatally difficult task in Fernando León de Aranoa’s The Good Boss showing at the London Film Festival.
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