{"id":343658,"date":"2021-09-24T11:49:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T08:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-good-boss-review-javier-bardem-headlines-a-spanish-satire\/"},"modified":"2021-09-24T11:49:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T08:49:25","slug":"watch-the-good-boss-review-javier-bardem-headlines-a-spanish-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-good-boss-review-javier-bardem-headlines-a-spanish-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;The Good Boss&#8217; Review: Javier Bardem Headlines a Spanish Satire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4084381a705\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4084381a705\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-good-boss-review-javier-bardem-headlines-a-spanish-satire\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Good_Boss_Review_Javier_Bardem_Headlines_a_Spanish_Satire%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Good Boss&#8217; Review: Javier Bardem Headlines a Spanish Satire&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-good-boss-review-javier-bardem-headlines-a-spanish-satire\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Good_Boss_Review_Javier_Bardem_Headlines_a_Spanish_Satire%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Good Boss&#8217; Review: Javier Bardem Headlines a Spanish Satire&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-good-boss-review-javier-bardem-headlines-a-spanish-satire\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-good-boss-review-javier-bardem-headlines-a-spanish-satire\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Good_Boss_Review_Javier_Bardem_Headlines_a_Spanish_Satire%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Good Boss&#8217; Review: Javier Bardem Headlines a Spanish Satire&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Good_Boss_Review_Javier_Bardem_Headlines_a_Spanish_Satire%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Good Boss&#8217; Review: Javier Bardem Headlines a Spanish Satire&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Say you\u2019re hitching a ride at the side of a lonely highway, and two cars slow down at once. One is driven by Anton Chigurh, the taciturn, helmet-haired serial killer played to Oscar-winning effect by Javier Bardem in \u201cNo Country for Old Men.\u201d At the wheel of the other is Blanco, the grayly respectable factory CEO essayed by the same actor in \u201cThe Good Boss.\u201d Seems like an easy choice, though by the end of the latter film, you might be inclined to take your chances with the psychopath.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco probably won\u2019t kill you; not by his own hand, at least. But with each chaotic plot turn of Spanish director Fernando Le\u00f3n de Aranoa\u2019s anti-corporate comedy, it becomes clearer that Blanco is the blandest possible incarnation of pure evil: a man with nary a principle, much less a personality, to his name. Yet as played with an inspired fusion of mundanity and menace by Bardem \u2014 his natural earthy charisma tamped down beneath shapeless suiting, wire-rimmed glasses and a lank, frosted swadge of executive hair \u2014 he\u2019s curiously riveting, and the best reason this amusing but gazpacho-temperature satire has for being. Needless to say, he\u2019ll also draw international distributors to a comedy that might otherwise be quite local in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t treat me like a boss,\u201d Blanco keeps telling people with a thin gray smile. You shudder to think how fast it would vanish if you did anything but. We first encounter him giving a smarmy pep talk to the employees at his company, a manufacturer of industrial scales \u2014 a detail that Le\u00f3n de Aranoa will go on to stress for all the metaphorical value it\u2019s worth, as <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> imbalance abounds in his busy story. All smiles and handshakes and repeated mentions of community, it\u2019s a performance for the benefit of a local journalist, visiting to big-up the factory in a commissioned puff piece. But it\u2019s also a rehearsal of sorts for a presentation that looms larger in Blanco\u2019s mind: A national committee will soon be arriving to determine the company\u2019s suitability for a prestigious business award, and everything has to be perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Once the visitors are gone, however, that entails a little harsh housekeeping. Among various downsizing measures, longtime employee Jose (\u00d3scar de la Fuente) is summarily dismissed, and doesn\u2019t take it well: Destitute, he sets up camp on a s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> of neutral land by the factory entrance, progressively ratcheting up the volume of his one-man protest. Within factory walls, meanwhile, everything is far from hunky-dory. Blanco\u2019s right-hand man, Miralles (Manolo Solo), is distracted by marital woes and flailing professionally \u2014 a weakness his boss isn\u2019t above exploiting for the good of the company, even as he drags Miralles to strip clubs in supposed solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco\u2019s own marriage to world-weary fashion boutique owner Adela (Sonia Almarcha) hasn\u2019t been sacred for years: Attractive new intern Liliana (Almudena Amor) is evidently the latest in a long line of disposable grooming prospects, proving the icky subtext of his public statement that \u201crelationships here go beyond what it says in the contracts.\u201d Yet their one-night dalliance isn\u2019t as strings-free as Blanco initially assumes.<\/p>\n<p>Cue a shift in register from brittle workplace comedy to broad bedroom farce, though one a bit lacking in elastic snap. At two hours, rather intricately stuffed with subplots ranging from frivolous to grimly consequential, \u201cThe Good Boss\u201d struggles to pick up the pace when required: The laughs are there, but more spaced out than they could be. The satire, too, lacks poison-arrow sharpness and specificity, beyond the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> point \u2014 well taken \u2014 that corporations protect only their keepers.<\/p>\n<p>Still, with its wry outlook and flashes of visual jokery, \u201cThe Good Boss\u201d is significantly livelier than Le\u00f3n de Aranoa and Bardem\u2019s last collaboration, the shrill, sudsy Escobar biopic \u201cLoving Pablo.\u201d Yet it is altogether a world away from their first, on the gentle, empathetic blue-collar drama \u201cMondays in the Sun\u201d 19 years ago. (That was Spain\u2019s surprise Oscar submission over Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u2019s \u201cTalk to Her\u201d in 2002, and \u201cThe Good Boss\u201d is currently one of three films shortlisted by Spain \u2014 along with Almod\u00f3var\u2019s \u201cParallel Mothers,\u201d as it happens \u2014 for the honor.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMondays\u201d was a study of working-class men left jobless and adrift by the closing of a shipyard: Nearly two decades later, the new film\u2019s sympathies are in much the same place, though its less privileged characters get short shrift in favor of a slippery, unctuous protagonist-villain. Sometimes the devil simply does have the best lines, not to mention the worst wigs: Bardem knows that better than most.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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