Synopsis
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.
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…
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Min pappa Toni Erdmann, Тони Эрдманн, 토니 에드만, As Faces De Toni Erdmann
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.
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).
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.
“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.
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…
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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…
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the upcoming Academy Awards, and supposedly the favourite to win the Oscar statuette although I fail to see what's so great about it, Toni Erdmann is a bland, overlong & tediously paced cinema that's amusing in bits n pieces but those moments are few n far between.
The story of Toni Erdmann follows an old-age hippie with a penchant for weird pranks who tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter by paying her a surprise visit but only ends up messing her lifestyle. Things do take an interesting turn when he reappears in a different persona and claims to be her CEO's life coach.
Written, co-produced & directed by Maren Ade, the film opens on…
It's no original observation to note that we wear masks to protect ourselves from others, nor to suggest that our sum total is in part defined by our portfolio of masks. I don't exactly ascribe to that idea, but it seems to dwell here in this film in a potent way. It's not so much that Winifred is trying to shock Ines into revealing the self beneath the mask so much as he is trying to be part of her life in a way that reveals more masks to him, inserting himself into various situations--work, social outings, and so on--intentionally or not altering the masks she wears in each. Notice how Ines attempts to micromanage her image, controlling every stray…
TAG YOURSELF! I'm the part where she cries in the club while techno music plays!
A father who loves practical jokes tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter and ends up creating a fictional character, Toni Erdmann, to spice up her life. It's a strange movie indeed. Some have described it as a comedy or a dark comedy but I agree with the director in that this is a sad and serious drama. It just so happens that one of the characters is making jokes all the time. Quite often the strangeness and the awkwardness were too much for me, but when they weren't, this was a delightfully original movie with a solid message, well written story and good acting. The much praised naked party scene works on many levels. The only thing I…
Funny and sad but way, way too long. A deeper examination into post-communist Romania and the dealings that are shaping its future would have justified the runtime but as it stands an hour of phonecalls and awkward pauses could have easily have been cut out. Giving this one star for the jokes, one for the realistic portrayal of family, and one for the kukeri.
"I really like Frankfurt. I like countries with a middle class. They are relaxing to me."
They can't take away my dignity. There's no audience more captive than family. Your morally compromising work is just another bit of dress-up; might as well be a mountain of hair or completely naked. That Ines goes off to work for McKinsey of all places at the end is so so funny and so so sad.
O problema é que... em geral, cuidamos dos afazeres. Temos que fazer isso ou aquilo, mas enquanto isso... a vida está passando. Como podemos nos apegar aos momentos?
Se tudo der certo muito em breve (espero) eu serei como o Seu Toni ❤
An absurde Andy Kaufman-esque comedy from Germany.
I laughed out loud a couple of times, and there were scenes that really caught me off guard. But overall, I'd say that this film is waaaaaaaay too long. A lot of the scenes feel repetitive and there were moments where the story didn't seem to progress at all.
It was good though.
Images
>Winfried lying on a mattress in the garden, while a bowl of dog food is kept near his head.
>Winfried looking at a father and son ice skating in the mall.
>Toni Erdmann licking a pinch of cocaine.
>Ines putting on the set of false teeth.
Sounds
>Toni Erdmann farting.
Scenes
>Winfried and Anca's conversation.
>Anca and Ines' conversation in the washroom exchanging shirts.
>Winfried cuffing Ines.
>Ines' house party.
>The final moment between Ines and Winfried and the one preceding it.
Dialogues
> Don't lose the humour.
The corporate mentality is to push forward and pretend everything is fine as the shame consumes you.
Tre stelle e mezzo è quel voto che significa che il film non è né bellissimo, né solo sufficente. Toni Erdmann parte da un'idea molto bella : parla di un padre che vuole ricordare alla figlia che bisognerebbe sempre prendere la vita con leggerezza nonostante tutto, che bisognerebbe sempre mantenere lo "humor", parla della ricerca del significato della parola "felicità" e di cosa è veramente importante nella vita. Tutti temi che porta avanti molto bene e in modo anche abbastanza leggero e divertente. Il problema del film per me sta nella durata, 2 ore e 40 non sono davvero giustificate per questo film, visto che ci sono moltissime parti abbastanza inutili che non contrubuiscono a delineare meglio i personaggi o…
Laughed so badly in few scenes especially the naked birthday party one, too much of underlined sarcasm. Good work with the Cinematography. The director wanted to give out so many messages through just these 2.5 hours and it felt too much at times. Also, let's stop putting children in the bad light always? (Felt like bagban at times, hahaha)
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