Special Presentation

Following the movie, join us for a spectacular Opening Night (Walter Mercado) Party at the Alfred I Dupont Building.

In Fernando León de Aranoa’s biting black comedy The Good Boss, Javier Bardem gives one of the greatest performances of his career as Blanco, the owner of a Básculas Blanco, a family business producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town.

Blanco is obsessed with a conservative view of perfection and balance, but beyond the impeccable façade is an entirely different story. When Básculas Blanco is nominated for a regional Business Excellence award and awaits an imminent inspection visit from the decision-making committee, Blanco works furiously behind the scenes to shore up errant managers and deal with disgruntled ex-employees protesting outside the factory gates. All the while, the married, paternal Blanco is distracted by an impossibly beautiful young marketing intern who seems strangely familiar…

Crossing every imaginable line in the process, setting off an explosive and unexpected sequence of events with unimaginable repercussions, Javier Bardem as Blanco is a tour-de-force send-up of modern Spanish mores. Nominated for a record 20 Goya Awards (Spanish Academy Awards) and winner of six, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.

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Fernando León de Aranoa is a Spanish filmmaker known for Familia (1996), Barrio (1998), Mondays in the Sun (2002), Princesas (2005), Amador (2010), A Perfect Day, Loving Pablo (2017) and now The Good Boss (2022). Fernando has regularly presented his films at the Miami Film Festival, along with the festivals of San Sebastian, Berlin, Sundance, Cannes, Venice and Toronto, among others. His work as a whole has garnered twelve Goya Awards from the Spanish Film Academy, three of them for Best Director, two for Best Screenplay, and one for Best Picture. He has been awarded the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival for Best Picture and the Silver Shell for Best Director, as well as three Fipresci awards and many more.

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