“Make sure they know to play it loud,” the filmmaker Maren Ade advises ahead of a screening of her film, “Toni Erdmann.” Since its rollicking debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May, “Toni Erdmann” has been the unlikely rock star of the international film festival scene.
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FILM: Business as Usual
HENRY JAMES ‘S DESCRIPTION of certain doorstop-sized nineteenth-century novels – the “large, loose, baggy monster” – applies pretty well to Maren Ade ‘s Toni Erdmann , a downbeat comic study of a dysfunctional father-daughter relationship that comes in a bit short of the three-hour mark, and which has as its keystone gag an actual large, loose, baggy monster. Ines is a thirtysomething German professional adrift in professional stasis despite her monomaniacal focus on climbing the corporate ladder at the backwater Romanian branch of a consultancy firm.
FILM: Business as Usual
HENRY JAMES ‘S DESCRIPTION of certain doorstop-sized nineteenth-century novels – the “large, loose, baggy monster” – applies pretty well to Maren Ade ‘s Toni Erdmann , a downbeat comic study of a dysfunctional father-daughter relationship that comes in a bit short of the three-hour mark, and which has as its keystone gag an actual large, loose, baggy monster. Ines is a thirtysomething German professional adrift in professional stasis despite her monomaniacal focus on climbing the corporate ladder at the backwater Romanian branch of a consultancy firm.