Synopsis
The Good Boss (El buen patrón, 2021) is Fernando León de Aranoa's Spanish dark comedy, and you can watch online on iFILM. Julio Blanco owns a factory that makes industrial scales, and any day now a committee will decide whether his plant deserves a local Business Excellence award.
Blanco (Javier Bardem) loves calling his workers one big family. Then, right before the visit, everything tips over. A fired employee camps outside the gate with a bullhorn and protest signs, a floor manager unravels over a marriage falling apart and lets production slip, and Blanco himself starts an affair with an intern whose father works the same line. To keep the surface flawless, the boss meddles in everyone's life and crosses one line after another, all behind that fatherly smile.
The film swept the Goya Awards with a record six wins, including Best Film and a Best Actor prize for Bardem, and was Spain's Oscar submission. The satire of corporate "we're a family" talk lands because Bardem plays the quiet manipulator with such ease — funny right up until it makes your skin crawl. Stream The Good Boss (2021) online on iFILM.
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