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'ACTING' CEO Albinus (pictured with Sofie Grabol) is a struggling thespian hired to portray ''the boss'' — and ends up raising corporate performance — in von Trier's mostly toothless satire
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Limited Release: May 23, 2007; Rated: Unrated; Length: 100 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Jens Albinus
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Even when he isn't being the dogmatic scold of the Dogville trilogy, Lars von Trier fashions his cinematic pranks like daggers. In The Boss of It All, though, the blade could use some sharpening. An executive (Peter Gantzler) hires an actor (Jens Albinus) to impersonate his company's (nonexistent) Mr. Big. The actor's inept performance is not only believed — it purges the company's sins. This satire of empty-suit capitalism has scalding moments, but most of it suggests Being There meets The Office gibberized into theater of the absurd. B-
Posted May 22, 2007
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