FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Maren Ade - Toni Erdmann 

Imagine if we'd been to Cannes. Nobody had Maren Ade or her new film Toni Erdmann seriously on the list of favorites. A film of three hours in length, whose press release was just as rambling. Many people probably only looked at Toni Erdmann from afar. But they were exactly the same, said later that there could be no such thing as justice if Toni Erdmann did not win the Golden Palm! Here comes such an exuberant comedy, with real thigh beaters, which can satisfy the audience deeply! Rarely has there been such a loving reaction from the audience in Cannes and if you look at the imdb rating, you will see a 9.1! No doubt, Maren Ade has to get her own subject in our film art bar Fitzcarraldo as a director and can count from now on to one of the greatest German filmmakers! Winfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek) is an aging bear who practices something like a 24-hour show on his own behalf: His hair looks like a gray bird's nest, he seems to dress up all the time in new costumes to make jokes. The daughter Ines (Sandra Hüller) is what is known in the modern world as a "Corporate Consultant". Thin as a model, serious, always on the phone. She is currently outsourcing hundreds of jobs to Romania (she speaks of "outsorcing" in modern asshole German). Ines works hard, she is successful and desperately unhappy. When her father pays her a surprise visit, it goes badly, as expected. They communicate in lukewarm phrases and soon he wants to leave again. A few days later, however, he returns in disguise as a coach for executives: Toni Erdmann. Now he may deeply penetrate Ines life, question everything, confuse everything. The 68er in the life of the daughter, whose market radical understanding of freedom can only be a misunderstanding! How much is in this movie! The non-understanding of parents and children, two different and equally unsustainable life positions and the truth that if everything is stuck, only comedy helps. Toni Erdmann did not win in Cannes. But he can give German cinema the necessary impetus to get to where it was forty years ago: right at the top!