Toni Erdmann review: long German comedy is slight, biting little miracle . Bruno Dumont has just given us his madly over- the- top seaside extravaganza Ma Loute, and now German film- maker Maren Ade presents Toni Erdmann . But then it gradually mutates into something darker and more disorientating. The film is very funny . We get hotel bar scenes, office scenes, pervy sex scenes.
We get an embarrassing yet euphoric karaoke impression of Whitney Houston. And later there is a very surreal party featuring some good old- fashioned German Freik.
He likes funny wigs and joke false teeth. We see him in the first scenes wearing zany scary- movie white- face makeup because he is producing a special musical tribute to a colleague who is retiring . The colleagues and the kids look doubtful.
A further froideur sets in when his daughter Ines (Sandra H. She clearly used to adore her father. For his part, Winifried suspects she is unhappy and unfulfilled. So to cheer her up, or to challenge and even bully her in some odd way, he makes a horribly misjudged decision to travel to Romania and show up at her offices in costume as a freaky comic character called . Clearly he is suffering from some kind of breakdown and transferring his happiness on to her. But then Ines shows that this kind of bizarre, confrontational humour may be in her DNA too. Nothing could be more cliched, or more questionable, than the idea that ambitious career women without children must therefore be pitiable, emotionally empty figures .
But Ade upends the cliche with her extravagantly strange, farcical situations . Ines is embarrassed by her silly, sad, borderline sociopathic old dad .
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Toni Erdmann is a 2016 German-Austrian comedy-drama film directed, written and co-produced by Maren Ade. It stars Peter Simonischek, Sandra H Toni Erdmann is a painfully drawn out and rather limp piece of work that dribbles on shapelessly until Ade finally stops the show by having the male protagonist.
And he is ashamed on her behalf and is convulsed with an emotion very like hate at the realisation of how little she thinks of him. Who would play Toni in a remake? Ben Kingsley would deliver the edge of fanatical strangeness and he would look good in the wig. Meanwhile, the hilarious German original is something to be savoured.