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The Good Boss  2021
El Buen Patrón
Director:  Fernando León de Aranoa
Producer:
  Fernando León de Aranoa and Jaume Roures
Editor:
  Vanessa Marimbert
Music:
  Zeltia Montes
Screenplay:
  Fernando León de Aranoa
Director of Photography:
  Pau Esteve Birba
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Cast:
spacer1 Javier Bardem
spacer1 Manolo Solo
spacer1 Almudena Amor
spacer1 Maria de Nati
spacer1 Mara Guil
spacer1 Óscar de la Fuente
spacer1 Sonia Almarcha
spacer1 Celso Bugallo
spacer1 Gernando Albizu
spacer1 Daniel Chamorro
spacer1 Dalit Streett Tejeda
spacer1 Tarik Rmili
spacer1 Javier Bardem spacer1 Manolo Solo spacer1 Almudena Amor
spacer1 Maria de Nati spacer1 Mara Guil spacer1 Óscar de la Fuente
spacer1 Sonia Almarcha spacer1 Celso Bugallo spacer1 Gernando Albizu
spacer1 Daniel Chamorro spacer1 Dalit Streett Tejeda spacer1 Tarik Rmili
spacer1 Javier Bardem spacer1 Manolo Solo
spacer1 Almudena Amor spacer1 Maria de Nati
spacer1 Mara Guil spacer1 Óscar de la Fuente
spacer1 Sonia Almarcha spacer1 Celso Bugallo
spacer1 Gernando Albizu spacer1 Daniel Chamorro
spacer1 Dalit Streett Tejeda spacer1 Tarik Rmili

Synopsis:
‘Hard Work, Balance, Loyalty’ are the values proudly inscribed on the walls of successful industrial scales company Basculas Blanco. Boss and community bigwig Blanco (Bardem) promotes himself as a father figure to his staff-as-family. However, just as his factory is shortlisted for a local business award, Blanco quickly turns abusive parent while having to firefight potential catastrophes – a sacked employee’s public protest, his right-hand man’s marital breakdown, his own misjudged fling with an intern.

His devious, desperate schemes generate the film’s escalating, wickedly black humour, expertly calibrated by writer-director Fernando Léon de Aranoa (A Perfect Day, 2015). Wonderful, too, to see Bardem centre stage again, embodying the toxic, entitled Blanco, whose mentality continues to make the modern corporate world so fertile a country for rich old men.

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