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Nov 15, 2016 · Her latest, which made a sensational debut in Competition at Cannes, is the story of a German father’s unconventional attempts to reconnect with his career-focused daughter during a prolonged and...
A two-and-three-quarter-hour German comedy about a strained father-daughter relationship, set primarily in Romania, it’s hardly what you might call the feel-good film of the year. Even the poster –...
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- James Mottram
May 20, 2016 · Toni Erdmann, a 162-minute German film that's the frontrunner for the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year, is chock-full of awkward situations that range from cringe-worthy to laugh-out-loud, “I can’t believe that just happened” hilarious. But ultimately, it's a drama disguised as a comedy—and that's only where the illusions begin.
- Emily Buder
Dec 29, 2016 · Toni Erdmann is loaded with ironies and disjunctions, with worlds colliding to darkly humorous effect. Ines never really seems to be inhabiting the world she’s in: stressed out in a spa, glued ...
Concerned that Ines has become too serious, her practical-joking father, Winfried, constructs the socially-awkward character of Toni Erdmann which he uses to surprise his daughter in all sorts of embarrassing ways at important meetings, functions and social gatherings.
German director Maren Ade’s unmissable comic drama Toni Erdmann presents a melancholy, beautifully drawn portrait of the relationship between an ambitious young businesswoman and her prankish father. Here the director discusses comedy, casting and why cliché is the enemy of complexity. By Isabel Stevens.
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Toni Erdmann is an indictment of the kind of global or cosmopolitan subject who fluidly moves between geographies and languages at the price of affective detachment. Winfried’s intervention in his daughter’s life is a similar demand of affective and political accountability.
