In off-centre, dark dramedy "Corner Office" (adapted by Ted Cupper from Jonas Karlsson's book 'The Room') Jon Hamm (always strong) is a new employee (under Christopher Heyerdahl alongside the likes of Danny Pudi & Allison Riley (with Sarah Gafon in support)) at a dull, grey, monolithic corporation, which tho contempory feels backwards & Seventies (in a "Wristcutters: A Love Story" stylee). Told from Hamm's perspective it's soon clear he's mentally ill, imagining for example the plush titular office (which no-one else can see) where he gathers his thoughts. Joachim Back delivers a quirkily interesting film in distinctive style... but it won't be to everyone's taste.

This film is based on a book which I've not read, i don't know how it all comes across in the book but in the film it comes across as a character study about a man with highly functioning autism and social awkwardness in a corporate office environment.

Im not Autistic but know a few people who are and when I go digging this is how they describe it, kind of...

Overall it makes a pretty interesting study into how this would work in an office environment from the perspective of an autistic person. There is however a big part if this which is the ' room '. I don't want to spoil anything by giving away too much detail but it adds the overall theme in an interesting way.

This is not a comedy as such so don't go expecting ' The Office '. This is a quirky drama and character study, the office elements provide a backdrop but they seem a bit exagerated or strange in comparison to a regular office environment. This only adds to the quirky feel of the film.

I found its fairly short runtime engaging and interesting but overall maybe lacking an overall message or ideology, instead opting to show us one mans slightly warped point of view.

I think if you know what to expect before you watch, you may not come out so disappointed like some of the other reviewers.

I think it sits somewhere around a 6 or 7 out of 10.

As someone who suffers from Depersonalization and Schizoid disorder, this movie hit me in the most unexpected way possible.

Whoever wrote it, knows how it feels to live trapped inside your own mind, where it becomes your only safe space in which you can finally be your real self (emotionally and intellectually), where it becomes "The Corner Office".

The style of the direction, the color-grade and the cinematography follow the overly-methodical and overly-analytical personality of the main character (that's how HE sees the world). Everything is grey, spaced-out, bland, cold and static with a cloud of dread circulating around everything and everyone: that's how the outside world and the real life feels like. But not in his Corner Office.

It's a solid and simple movie, very original in it's idea because it's not simply a "inside the mind of a mad man" script. It's not pretentious in how it deals with questions and with it's message.

Don't go expecting a big budget oscar winning drama; it doesn't try to be that.

Also: his monologues made me think of Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864).