Marking their third collaboration in 20 years, filmmaker Fernando León de Aranoa and Oscar winner Javier Bardem reteamed for The Good Boss, which is representing Spain in this year’s International Feature Oscar race.
The duo joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: International awards-season event to discuss the movie and their enduring relationship.A dark comedy, The Good Boss examines abuse of power, in this case as wielded by Bardem’s charismatic and controlling factory boss Blanco, who will go to extreme lengths to protect the world he has created for himself — and to ensure his affairs with interns are not exposed to his wife.Blanco considers himself to be the good boss of the title, and as Bardem told us, he “thinks of himself as a savior,
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