The Good Boss – My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers

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THIS way, please: Blanco (Javier Bardem) confidently leads the regional government’s scales inspector through his prized factory, in ‘The Good Boss’. Photograph courtesy deadline.com

SOMETIMES A NOTHING of a story can be the perfect shell for a mix of humour, philosophy and drama. And with the fabulous Javier Bardem at the helm of The Good Boss, you can anticipate narrative magnetism. It’s on this year’s European Film Festival; designed to be hybrid, it offers limited screenings and online access in Johannesburg and Cape Town, until Sunday 23 October, in Mbabane until 23 October and in Maseru, between 28 and 30 October.

Largely a tale of balance, this film is cut with style and produced with the kind of verve, that keeps you focused till the end credits, even though it’s a story that will not move the world and without Bardem as the central protagonist would fall flat. It’s a yarn of equilibrium: Blanco (Bardem) is the owner of a factory that makes scales. Big…

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