Adapted from Swedish novelist Jonas Karlsson’s The Room, director Joachim Back’s Corner Office opens with Orson (Jon Hamm) arriving on the first day of his new job at The Authority. The company, housed in a monolithic, brutalist tower, is likely what the average person thinks of when they think of “Kafkaesque.” Whatever services its workers provide remains a complete mystery, and Orson, the consummate employee, adheres to a strict efficiency-maximizing routine and looks down on his co-workers, particularly his deskmate Rakesh (Danny Pudi), for what he takes to be laziness and incompetence. His stated desire to become “a person to be reckoned with” would seem to be out of joint with his subservience.
While hunting for office supplies, Orson stumbles across the titular office, seemingly unused. For him, this room represents the pinnacle of design, what with its precision layout, the abstract paintings adorning its wood-paneled walls, its lighting,...
While hunting for office supplies, Orson stumbles across the titular office, seemingly unused. For him, this room represents the pinnacle of design, what with its precision layout, the abstract paintings adorning its wood-paneled walls, its lighting,...
- 8/3/2023
- by William Repass
- Slant Magazine
Film premiered at Tribeca Festival.
Vmi Worldwide has picked up international rights and launched talks at TIFF on Joachim Back’s dark comedy Corner Office starring Jon Hamm.
The film received its world premiere earlier this year at Tribeca Festival and follows Orson, a corporate employee trying to move up the ladder who discovers a secret room in his drab office building, which causes problems with his new colleagues.
Rounding out the cast are Danny Pudi, Sarah Gadon and Christopher Heyerdahl. Ted Kupper adapted the screenplay from Jonas Karlsson’s novel The Room.
Producer credits on the Kafkaesque tale are...
Vmi Worldwide has picked up international rights and launched talks at TIFF on Joachim Back’s dark comedy Corner Office starring Jon Hamm.
The film received its world premiere earlier this year at Tribeca Festival and follows Orson, a corporate employee trying to move up the ladder who discovers a secret room in his drab office building, which causes problems with his new colleagues.
Rounding out the cast are Danny Pudi, Sarah Gadon and Christopher Heyerdahl. Ted Kupper adapted the screenplay from Jonas Karlsson’s novel The Room.
Producer credits on the Kafkaesque tale are...
- 9/11/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. Lionsgate releases the film in theaters and on VOD and digital on Friday, August 4.
Orson (Jon Hamm) is an upwardly mobile corporate drone who suffers from Main Character Syndrome in a Kafkaesque work environment, his arrogance so vigorously rubbing against his anonymity that the friction created between those two forces is almost powerful enough to sustain the ultra-droll office satire that “Corner Office” constructs around it. Adapted from Jonas Karlsson’s lightly surreal (but extremely Scandinavian) novella, “The Room,” Joachim Back’s feature-length debut promotes a typical skewering of corporate drudgery with the hint of a curious new twist.
Whereas stories about paper-pushing worker drones have been done to death — to the point that Back’s film can seem perversely familiar when it isn’t futzing with the blueprints of reality — the human cog at the center...
Orson (Jon Hamm) is an upwardly mobile corporate drone who suffers from Main Character Syndrome in a Kafkaesque work environment, his arrogance so vigorously rubbing against his anonymity that the friction created between those two forces is almost powerful enough to sustain the ultra-droll office satire that “Corner Office” constructs around it. Adapted from Jonas Karlsson’s lightly surreal (but extremely Scandinavian) novella, “The Room,” Joachim Back’s feature-length debut promotes a typical skewering of corporate drudgery with the hint of a curious new twist.
Whereas stories about paper-pushing worker drones have been done to death — to the point that Back’s film can seem perversely familiar when it isn’t futzing with the blueprints of reality — the human cog at the center...
- 6/10/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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Kafkaesque tales, even those written by Kafka, tend to work better on the page than the screen. That’s made evident yet again by Joachim Back’s ambitious cinematic adaptation of Jonas Karlsson’s acclaimed existentialist novel The Room, receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Retitled Corner Office (presumably to avoid confusion with Tommy Wiseau’s immortally bad cult classic), the film features a fascinating premise that unfortunately wears thin over the course of its feature-length running time. But it does provide the opportunity for Jon Hamm to demonstrate his gift for deadpan comedy.
In this film, Hamm returns to the sort of office setting that marked his breakout role in Mad Men, but this is a very different office indeed. Housed in a brutalist architectural structure that wouldn’t be out of place in Soviet Russia, it’s the...
Kafkaesque tales, even those written by Kafka, tend to work better on the page than the screen. That’s made evident yet again by Joachim Back’s ambitious cinematic adaptation of Jonas Karlsson’s acclaimed existentialist novel The Room, receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Retitled Corner Office (presumably to avoid confusion with Tommy Wiseau’s immortally bad cult classic), the film features a fascinating premise that unfortunately wears thin over the course of its feature-length running time. But it does provide the opportunity for Jon Hamm to demonstrate his gift for deadpan comedy.
In this film, Hamm returns to the sort of office setting that marked his breakout role in Mad Men, but this is a very different office indeed. Housed in a brutalist architectural structure that wouldn’t be out of place in Soviet Russia, it’s the...
- 6/10/2022
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Writer/director/producer Eddie Alcazar is known for the documentary Tapia (2013), which he directed, and Kuso (2017), directed by Flying Lotus, which he was a producer on. Alcazar has directed a new science fiction film, Perfect, which he co-wrote with Ted Kupper. Perfect is executive-produced by Steven Soderbergh and Flying Lotus did the music for the […] The post Interview: Director Eddie Alcazar on Breathtaking Style and Grotesquely Fascinating Body Horror in Perfect appeared first on Dread Central.
- 6/23/2019
- by Michelle Swope
- DreadCentral.com
"My mom came here when she was younger, and they she thought they could... fix me." Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and featuring music by Flying Lotus, Eddie Alcazar's new sci-fi thriller Perfect takes viewers into a dystopian world of brutally high expectations, and with the film out now on VOD (launching exclusively on Breaker.io), we've been provided with a new clip to share with Daily Dead readers.
To celebrate the exclusive VOD release of Perfect on Breaker.io, a free promo code "Perfect" has been launched and is valid for 30 days.
You can watch the new clip from Perfect below, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's interview with Alcazar.
Directed by Eddie Alcazar from a screenplay by Ted Kupper, and featuring an original score by Flying Lotus, Perfect stars Garrett Wareing, Courtney Eaton, Tao Okamoto, Maurice Compte, and Abbie Cornish.
Synopsis: "Produced and...
To celebrate the exclusive VOD release of Perfect on Breaker.io, a free promo code "Perfect" has been launched and is valid for 30 days.
You can watch the new clip from Perfect below, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's interview with Alcazar.
Directed by Eddie Alcazar from a screenplay by Ted Kupper, and featuring an original score by Flying Lotus, Perfect stars Garrett Wareing, Courtney Eaton, Tao Okamoto, Maurice Compte, and Abbie Cornish.
Synopsis: "Produced and...
- 6/21/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In Eddie Alcazar’s debut feature “Perfect,” beautiful nymph-like models lounge around a Lautner house digitally transported into a waterfall fantasy land, and not a whole lot seems to mean anything. Alcazar has flip-flopped roles with his collaborator, musician-filmmaker Flying Lotus, for whom Alcazar acted as producer on the gross-out horror anthology film “Kuso.” Now Flying Lotus is producing (and acting as composer) for this sci-fi anti-morality tale — released under the “Steven Soderbergh Presents” banner — that frustrates as much as it visually dazzles.
The film opens with a distraught young man calling his chilly mother (Abbie Cornish) on a 1980s landline to beg her to come home and fix his mess. The mess in question is the nude corpse of his girlfriend, drenched in her own blood. When mom whisks her son away to a kind of modernist rehab, it seems as though he might go through the motions of repentance or soul-searching,...
The film opens with a distraught young man calling his chilly mother (Abbie Cornish) on a 1980s landline to beg her to come home and fix his mess. The mess in question is the nude corpse of his girlfriend, drenched in her own blood. When mom whisks her son away to a kind of modernist rehab, it seems as though he might go through the motions of repentance or soul-searching,...
- 5/17/2019
- by April Wolfe
- The Wrap
"You need to open up yourself to complete reprogramming." Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and featuring music by Flying Lotus, Eddie Alcazar's new sci-fi thriller Perfect will take viewers into a dystopian world of brutally high expectations when it premieres in New York and Los Angeles this May ahead of its VOD release on Breaker.io on June 21st, and we've been provided with a new trailer that offers another look into the movie's mind-bending setting.
Previous Press Release: New York, NY – April 10, 2019 – Dystopian sci-fi thriller Perfect from writer and director Eddie Alcazar, will premiere in theaters in New York at Village East Cinemas on May 17 and in Los Angeles at Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts on May 24, followed by a VOD launch exclusively on Breaker.io on June 21. Described by The Hollywood Reporter as a “a sensory trip wrapped around a kind of Frankenstein tale”, Perfect is a visually...
Previous Press Release: New York, NY – April 10, 2019 – Dystopian sci-fi thriller Perfect from writer and director Eddie Alcazar, will premiere in theaters in New York at Village East Cinemas on May 17 and in Los Angeles at Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts on May 24, followed by a VOD launch exclusively on Breaker.io on June 21. Described by The Hollywood Reporter as a “a sensory trip wrapped around a kind of Frankenstein tale”, Perfect is a visually...
- 4/24/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and produced and scored by Flying Lotus, Eddie Alcazar's new sci-fi thriller Perfect will take viewers into a dystopian world of brutally high expectations when it premieres in New York and Los Angeles this May ahead of its VOD release on Breaker.io on June 21st. To give Daily Dead readers an idea of what to expect, we've been provided with a new poster and clip from the film ahead of its release.
Press Release: New York, NY – April 10, 2019 – Dystopian sci-fi thriller Perfect from writer and director Eddie Alcazar, will premiere in theaters in New York at Village East Cinemas on May 17 and in Los Angeles at Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts on May 24, followed by a VOD launch exclusively on Breaker.io on June 21. Described by The Hollywood Reporter as a “a sensory trip wrapped around a kind of Frankenstein tale”, Perfect is a...
Press Release: New York, NY – April 10, 2019 – Dystopian sci-fi thriller Perfect from writer and director Eddie Alcazar, will premiere in theaters in New York at Village East Cinemas on May 17 and in Los Angeles at Laemmle Ahrya Fine Arts on May 24, followed by a VOD launch exclusively on Breaker.io on June 21. Described by The Hollywood Reporter as a “a sensory trip wrapped around a kind of Frankenstein tale”, Perfect is a...
- 4/10/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
A trippy take on genetic engineering, Perfect is a mind-altering film that, depending on the viewer’s sensibilities, will either be an expressionist gem or a hollow exercise in style over substance. Taking place at what could either be a high-tech health spa or the future of the penal system, the film begins as a young man known as Vessel 13 (Garrett Wareing) is urged to this facility by his mother (Abbie Cornish). She’s been there before, opening a whole host of possibilities as liberties are taken visually and spiritually in the name of creating an origin story for Vessel 13 as mother projects her hopes and dreams onto her perfect son. Those looking for a traditional narrative ought to look elsewhere; Perfect is a gruesome, yet occasionally gorgeous high-tech take on Last Year at Marienbad with depth, I fear, that is only skin deep.
Sent to the clinic after killing a young woman,...
Sent to the clinic after killing a young woman,...
- 3/24/2018
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
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