Among various downsizing measures, longtime employee Jose is summarily dismissed, and doesn’t take it well… Within factory walls, meanwhile, everything is far from hunky-dory.

Once the visitors are gone, however… a little harsh housekeeping. We first encounter him giving a smarmy pep talk to the employees at his company… All smiles and handshakes and repeated mentions of community, it’s a performance for the benefit of a local journalist, visiting to big-up the factory in a commissioned puff piece… You shudder to think how fast it would vanish if you did anything but. “‘Don’t treat me like a boss,’ Blanco keeps telling people with a thin gray smile.

Everything must be perfect – Julio, risking his own sanity, will ensure that it is, no matter who he must seduce and destroy. In a few days’ time, the national committee deciding the award outcome will come to inspect the premises. Javier Bardem, renowned for his memorable portrayals of villains in No Country for Old Men and Skyfall, adds another sinisterly charming, immoral character to his repertoire as the titular “good boss” in this dark Spanish satire which bagged all the top awards at the 2022 Goyas (the Spanish Oscars).īenevolent patriarch Julio Blanco, CEO of a family company manufacturing precision industrial scales, is determined to win a prestigious business award.

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