‘Technoboss’: Locarno Review screendaily.com/reviews/technoboss-locarno-review/5141883.article By Allan Hunter 13 August 2019
A highly idiosyncratic comedy/musical that might just achieve cult status
Source: The Match Factory/Locarno Film Festival ‘Technoboss’ Dir: Joao Nicolau. Portugal, France. 2019. 112mins Old dogs don’t need to learn new tricks as long as they still have a song in their heart. That seems to be the moral of Technoboss, a cocktail of deadpan comedy, romantic longing and plaintive crooning that marches to its own defiantly idiosyncratic beat. Joao Nicolau’s plaintive, highly original musical may just have the ingredients to secure a cult following in the wake of its Locarno world premiere. A cocktail of deadpan comedy, romantic longing and plaintive crooning that marches to its own defiantly idiosyncratic beat Technoboss has all the elements of an Arthur Miller play as we follow the professional death of a salesman. Luis Rovisco (Miguel Lobo Antunes) has spent thirty-seven years with SegurVale-Integrated Systems Of Access Control. He has grown old in the service of
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