Toni Erdmann

2016 Directed by Maren Ade

Without warning a father comes to visit his daughter abroad. He believes that she lost her humor and therefore surprises her with a rampage of jokes.

Sandra Hüller Peter Simonischek Michael Wittenborn Thomas Loibl Trystan Pütter Ingrid Bisu Hadewych Minis Lucy Russell Victoria Cociaș Alexandru Papadopol Victoria Malektorovych Ingrid Burkhard Jürg Löw Ruth Reinecke Nicolas Wackerbarth Mihai Manolache Radu Bânzaru Niels Bormann Radu Dumitrache Klara Höfels Hartmut Stanke Hans Löw Julischka Eichel Lennart Moho Irene Rindje Sava Lolov John Keogh Cezara Dafinescu Ozana Oancea Show All…

Alternative Titles

토니 에드만, Тони Эрдманн, Min pappa Toni Erdmann

drama comedy

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Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 14

So when's the shitty Paul Feig remake with like Pacino and Rose Byrne?
[puts in goofy dentures]
Don't you dare steal my idea.
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 10

it's true.
all of it.
(i have some major misgivings about the last 15 minutes, which feel — at least on first viewing — that they blunt out what could have been one of the great movie endings in recent memory, but everything you heard from Cannes about Maren Ade's shaggy epic is right on the money. the shortest 160 minutes you'll spend at the movies this year).
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 12

Almost everyone in my theater was laughing for about three hours straight. I think that speaks for itself; I've never quite had a movie-going experience like seeing this film with an audience.
Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★½

“He was on old dog”.
That the humanist ideal of reconstruction Europe and the current European community can’t be reconciled is old news, but it takes an Andy Kaufmanesque prankster in a very old fashioned sentimental mission to, if not exactly exhume the corpse at least bring it into sharp relief. You'll laugh, you'll cry and things will just pass away. And it is really very very funny. Experimental human behavior played with broad Cassavetian exuberance at its best. Also, in the age of bloated festival film, it is always joy to get a 160 minutes one that needs every second of it to count.
Review by Jonathan White ★★★★ 21

TIFF16 Film #1
Reason for Pick – Eli’s Hayes’ review out of Cannes
Toni Erdmann is a complex dance that paints the outline of the relationship between a lonely father and his career occupied daughter, who's living abroad.
I went in with the impression that this was going to be two hours and forty minutes of non-stop laughter. It isn’t. While there are frequent laugh-out-loud moments, and two scenes that sends the audience into fits, the remainder ranges from poignant to painful to awkward. Writer / Director Maren Ade isn’t afraid to linger on a shot, often cutting a few seconds after the natural beat, which gives a feeling of reality over scripted drama. She also isn’t afraid to use…
Review by Michael Sicinski ★★★★

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Well, Christian Petzold broke the ice, but it looks like Maren Ade's going to bring it home: the "Berlin School" has broken beyond the rarefied festival circuit to produce bona fide hits. What's particularly shocking about this turn of events is that, unlike other segments of the austere art-film universe, the Berlin School appears to have crossed over into the mainstream almost by accident. Apart from slightly more direct plotting, there's nothing about Petzold's Phoenix that made it inherently more accessible than his earlier films. And now, Ade gives us Toni Erdmann, a generational comedy that, at its core, is about the inappropriate character and unavoidable embarrassment that accompanies "humor" between the generations.
Ade has long been the stealth…

Recent reviews

Review by Solène

I am of the opinion that pranksters are sociopaths so the dad scared the hell out of me
Review by Muentingtee ½

Für alle die einen film der einen langweilig da stehen lässt und man über 2 stunden zeit geschendet hat dem empfehle ich diesen film.
Jedoch kann ich die meinung der kritiker voll und ganz nachvollziehen der film ist rein filmisch sehr gut aber für normale kinogänger die leichte kost erwarten ist das leider nichts.
Fazit: wer mal einen film der komplett anderen art sehen möchte der ist mit toni erdmann gut bedient bringt jedoch viel sitzfleisch mit denn er wird sehr lang atmich, auch die dialoge wirken abgehackt und dröge.
Am ende ist es ein film den man mag oder nicht mag
Review by halman9

Wie der Film die Welt der Wirtschaftsmenschen bloßstellt, ist grandios.
Toni Erdmann ist tragisch, komisch, wahnsinnig und furchtbar echt. Sehr zu empfehlen!
Review by brucefromnemo

Mmm yes
When movies are this long and nothing is happening then the smallest little moments can break ur emotional lil heart
Review by Yasujiro Manio ★★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

personal fave huhu bet ko ganitong awkward baliw tsaka scenes na masaya ishoot, bonus points sa kuko sa paa na naipitan ng dugo ganung ganun kuko ko dati ahaha + greatest love of all best :'(
Review by Philip Le Mencolada ★★½

I laughed once in this movie. The German humor is beyond my understanding
Review by MultitasKing ★★★★

'Toni Erdmann' schafft es wunderschön eine Geschichte über einen Vater und seine Tochter zu erzählen, dessen Persönlichkeiten unterschiedlicher nicht sein können.
Es ist ein Film über Eitelkeit und Bescheidenheit, Humor und Ernst, Liebe und Hass, Armut und Reichtum und über Stress und die Leichtigkeit des Lebens. 'Toni Erdmann' schafft es soviele Dinge unter einen Hut zu bringen, dass man nie genau weiss in welche Richtung es gehen wird oder was einen als nächstes erwartet.
Review by paulmuench ★★★★

Delightfully strange and moving. A daughter (re)finds her voice with the help of a truly eccentric, loving father. There’s something very charming about some of the scenes; they are so unbelievable that people just go with them and we, as viewers, do too. The surreal underbelly of the corporate world brings the audience to a place where the question of what makes life meaningful becomes a meaningful question and we experience with the characters a real answer.
Review by j△ ★★★★½

A fascinating film in terms of how it manages to execute some of the most paralyzingly awkward situational comedy while maintaining an emotional core wherein the humour is motivated by desperation and a paternal urgency to connect. Numerous situations elicited uncomfortable laughter, even making me physically cringe at points - a visceral reaction, not because the circumstances themselves are undesirable, but because the characters are three dimensional enough for every interaction to hold tangible weight - but it's offset by the constant pervasive awareness that underlying it is a father's longing to break through his daughter's preoccupied facade and bring something more genuine to light.
It's built into the nuances of the actors' performances, apparent not only in the times…