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    'The good boss': how an immense Javier Bardem fixes, polishes and gives splendor to the corrosive irony of León de Aranoa

Despite himself, Fernando León de Aranoa (Madrid, 1968) is going to have to give a lot of interviews this year, with how little he likes the foreground.

It is said that he is going to get tired of collecting awards for his latest film

,

The good boss

, which already holds the record of 20 Goya nominations: a portrait to the limit of the provincial business community starring Javier Bardem.

As he did with

Mondays in the Sun

, a story about the ravages of unemployment, he has hit the nail on the head again:

Spain is full of great bosses

seduced by awards and the press and he is the best at showing them.

Since making his directorial debut in the late 1990s, the filmmaker has been known exclusively for his talent.

What has transcended is his intellectual sphere, although he has never flaunted anything, neither his culture nor, of course, his private life.

Now, Spain wants to know about him, he is as indiscreet as the protagonist of his successful film, Julio Blanco, the boss who gets into the lives of his employees to unsuspected limits.

There is no more than googling the director

to know the most recurrent searches of the public regarding him.

How tall is Fernando Leon?

Who is your partner? And your daughter?

Contemplating his work, it is deduced that he has an -interior- life that is less exciting, for something he is an exalted screenwriter.

He measures 1.98 meters and is more faithful to his ponytail - now gray hair - than Pablo Iglesias.

He has been with her for at least 25 years.

Even more than with

his partner, Patricia de Muns, executive producer of his films

.

De Muns has been collaborating -and living together in a small apartment in Lavapiés- with Fernando León for more than two decades. She appeared, according to imdb, in the acknowledgments of the creator's first movie, Family, shot in 1996. There was also a nod towards her in the credits of Mondays in the Sun (2002), although it was four years earlier when this woman started working seriously with the award-winning filmmaker, in 1998, as a casting director on the film Barrio. Later, he has continued to participate in all his projects, always behind the camera

: Princesses (2005), Amador (2010), A Perfect Day (2015), the documentary Politics, Instruction Manual (2016) and The Good Pattern (2021) .

In the last ones as an executive producer, in fact she has the position of representative in the director's companies, 100 revolutions per minute PC and Reposado PC.

Also in the most recent and created in 2020, Básculas Blanco (name of the company of The good boss), which was joined by a powerful partner such as Mediapro, which is not the first time that it has injected capital.

Patricia de Muns, a few years older than the director, has a daughter with him about whom there is no data, only a brief mention of the existence of the young woman by Fernando León in an interview with La Vanguard.

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As distracted and bohemian in appearance as his partner, De Muns

has worked as a documentary filmmaker and assistant director

on

series such as El comisario and films such as Frágiles, by Juanma Bajo Ulloa

, although most of his career has been developed alongside the genius.

Despite the success, -The good boss has been chosen by the Film Academy to represent Spain at the Oscars and has raised more than three million at the box office-, León de Aranoa needs, like everyone else, funding to move his projects forward.

According to the transparency portal, he received

a grant of 1,380,000 euros from the Ministry of Industry

in 2020 for his latest film and has once again had the trust of Jaume Roures to make it.

Without a doubt, 2022 will once again be a great year for the filmmaker, immune to laudatory comments and flashes.

However, for him, in the background, everything will remain the same, he

will lead the same life as always

until he comes up with a new story.

A simple life in the corner bar drinking a few beers with her friends (although these are Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem), reading verses by her beloved poet Claudio Rodríguez or visiting her mother in Zarautz (Guipúzcoa), where she lives and goes often with her sister Irene, also involved in the cinema.

That kid who

liked comics, drew super and studied Image by chance

will not stop making him happy the usual things at this point... of the movie.

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