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Toni Erdmann
A reluctant woman (Sandra Hüller) must spend time with her estranged father (Peter Simonischek) who tries to reconnect with her by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.
7 June 1931, Vienna, Austria
4 August 1969, Botosani, Romania
31 May 1973, Munich, West Germany
15 September 1987, Bucharest, Romania
1969, Brüggen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
1949
1976, Bremen, Germany
March 09, 2017
Toni Erdmann is so loaded with show-stopping sequences and contradictory tones that it's hard to know where to start, but I doubt anyone will ever listen to "The Greatest Love of All" again without thinking of this film. D.B.
January 27, 2017
Sure enough, Andy Kaufman's prankster and premeditatedly abrasive second-self was the impetus behind this epic one-joke comedy from German writer-director Maren Ade.
February 08, 2017
Funny, tender, outrageous - this unpredictable movie belongs in a category all its own.
March 09, 2017
It's one of the best comedies in recent years, being intelligent, disconcerting and poignant at the same time. [Full review in Spanish]
March 15, 2017
Whatever Ade's intentions, her Toni Erdmann does achieve this: Syd Field or no, it offers American moviegoers a reminder of the many different ways that cinema can express itself.
April 07, 2017
If I could grant Maren Ade's third feature the rating it deserves, its title would be followed not by five stars but by a constellation. The Academy blew it. Toni Erdmann is by far the finest foreign language film of the past year.
February 16, 2017
Hüller is amusingly discombobulated as the uptight Ines. But the film is perhaps best appreciated as a showcase for the gifted Simonischek, whose portrayal of Winfried/Toni is one for the ages.
March 10, 2017
Toni Erdmann is 40 minutes too long, period.
February 16, 2017
At nearly three hours, "Toni Erdmann" is expansive but rarely self-indulgent, and the emotional payoff, when it comes, feels truly and bizarrely earned.
February 02, 2017
Rather than setting up jokes, scoring points and swiftly moving on, Ade keeps her shots rolling past the natural beats, hindering what at its core is a road trip comedy - one that is thinly staged, shot and edited.
February 24, 2017
"Toni Erdmann" has plenty to say about parenting, ambition, feminism and modern happiness, but not enough to justify its absurdly longwinded running time.
May 03, 2017
an old-fashioned father-daughter story grafted onto a none-too-subtle critique of the corporatization of Europe and the brutally hectic nature of modern life