Suxxess
2002 · Movie · 103 min. · Sweden
A Swedish IT company gets a new boss, who swiftly turns out to be a soulless hatchet man in Schildt's dark satire on the evils of the corporate world. He's opposed by Daniel, one of his employees, and eventually comes crashing down, impaled on his own hubris. So Daniel gets given the poisoned chalice of leadership in his place, just to end up as amoral and platitudinous as the man and values he initially stood up against. Power corrupts: the message is as old as the hills. But it's carried out here with some real brio, featuring a set of effectively unctuous leads and some scenes of stark inhumanity that, combined with an icily plangent soundtrack, occasionally really pull the rug out from under your feet. Creepy fun, as long as you don't work in one of these offices.
Direction Peter Schildt
Cast Peter Engman · Cilla Thorell · Göran Ragnerstam · Mikaela Ramel · Stina Ekblad · Lennart Jähkel · Iwar Wiklander · Per Svensson · Kristian Lima de Faria · Gerd Hegnell · Carina Boberg · Bodil Mårtensson · Sven Wollter · Julia Dufvenius · Katharina Cohen · Eric Ericson
Soundtrack Anders Melander
Screenplay Christina Herrström · Peter Schildt
Cinematography Jens Fischer
Original title Suxxess
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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