TONI ERDMANN, the lauded German corporate daughter/prankster dad comedy (?) film by Maren Ade

anyway, this film was unlike anything ever seen, and completely amazing

i loved how they slipped in and out of different languages mid-conversation- most of the movie takes place in Romania but we barely see any of it, besides the egg-painting/karaoke scene, the only real culture we see... all these sterile hotels, bars, ballrooms, conference rooms, modern apartments... disappointed middle aged women and their mentally adolescent male coworkers... the scene where Ines is with that wormy guy and she makes him jerk off onto a pastry, looking totally dead inside the whole time... and yeah, fwiw I thought of Nicholson watching this, but maybe because I saw the Shining the other day... good movie... didn't bowl me over, certainly didn't fly by, sorry it ain't no Curb... good nonetheless

hope nicholsons heart attack happens before this remake can

plz be nice

and don't come on the petitfour

my aim is true unlike that guy

sorry it ain't no Curb... good nonetheless

― flappy bird, Saturday, February 11, 2017 5:43 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yo I heard there are some film critic vacancies

http://www.vulture.com/2017/02/bill-murray-lost-toni-erdmann-remake-lead-to-jack-nicholson.html

My favourite film of 2016 and not a single minute is wasted in the nearly 3 hour running time. I love Ines' disintegration of her identity in the face of the corporate stronghold on her life. The nude party scene is key because she just wants to let go, but does not know how to navigate this. The scene reads as both an act of liberation and a "fuck it" moment. Love it.

eh i do like its uniqueness but i found this a lil wearying & not particularly funny; it is v well-done & i like a lot of the choices it makes as it progresses; it is also easy to imagine it remade, likely in lowest common denominator fashion but jack prob isnt unretiring just to cash in so idk maybe itd be decent

eh i do like its uniqueness but i found this a lil wearying & not particularly funny;

Agree, although Maren Ade has said she doesn't think it's a comedy. I just found the whole set up not convincing, even in an absurdist sense. I wouldn't disagree with anyone who loved it, it just wasn't really for me.

loved many things but perhaps most the fact that when the big emotional hug moment happens not only can you not see Dad's face but he's dressed up as a ball of hair! also excellent; the boss *coming back* to the party after he'd had some Dutch courage.

and yeah Plainsong omg.

Plainsong was the cherry on top

Finally played somewhere near me and is probably my favourite film in many years. Hilariously funny when it needs to be and the story of a father who can't quite find a way to engage with his emotionally distant daughter hits home hard.

Put me in the "I appreciate it, but I dunno if I actually like it" category, at least for now. One of the most frustrating viewing experiences I've had in a while, not because I was bored or unamused (I wasn't), but just because I never really felt like I could get a handle on it.

And while I get that there's a lot to digest here, I'm surprise no one itt mentioned the sex (?) scene.

Same, though I admit my contribution to the discussion would be "I can see why they cast that guy."

This is the most amazing book, btw, almost all of the costumes are mind blowing. http://www.charlesfreger.com/portfolio/wilder-mann/

http://www.charlesfreger.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/charles_freger_wilder_mann_2010-2011_0042_babugeri.jpg

Put me in the "I appreciate it, but I dunno if I actually like it" category, at least for now. One of the most frustrating viewing experiences I've had in a while, not because I was bored or unamused (I wasn't), but just because I never really felt like I could get a handle on it.

And while I get that there's a lot to digest here, I'm surprise no one itt mentioned the sex (?) scene.

My response on first viewing. I was tantalized enough to give it a second viewing – and that's when I came away thinking it was a great film.

Two days later, its already growing on me.

https://thefilmstage.com/news/lena-dunham-and-jenni-konner-to-go-from-girls-to-american-remake-of-toni-erdmann/

Girls creators Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner are in talks to scribe the film, which follows, in broad strokes, about a father trying to reconnect with his daughter. We reported recently that Jack Nicholson is set to play the father, with Kristen Wiig as the daughter. Additionally, producers include Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, which definitely suggests the piece will take on a different tone than the original.

ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh

lol lol lol lol lol

Just once would I like to be in talks to scribe something

ahahahaha

this is literally the perfect storm of an artistic travesty

I'd be in a talk and it'd be like

"Will you scribe this"

"Depends, who's helming it"

lol

Bleurgh.

Meantimes, I recommended this to my parents and they loved it. Knew they would.

Fuck

i wish i had seen this in theaters; i imagine the nude party brings down the house every time.
languorous, never indulgent; i think i liked it a lot? sure knows how to set up a punchline.
i will be avoiding an american remake like i have avoided no other american remake since oldboy

Jack Nicholson though... I'll probably see it for him.

Dunham out, Cholodenko in

http://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/toni-erdmann-remake-lena-dunham-lisa-cholodenko-1201967911/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Thank Fucking God

Saw a note on another forum that Nicholson has left the remake as well.

I was skeptical of this happening

Apparently there has already been a Netflix knockoff with the recent Like Father, starring Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer.

To me, a remake seems futile. Hollywood would inevitably smooth out or eliminate everything that made Toni so special, while keeping the story's unremarkable premise.

agreed but to see Lena Dunham and Jack Nicholson doing it would've been incredible imo

They ought to collaborate on an original project.

please no, wasn't Hackman making his last film w/ ray Romano enough for you?

Honestly don't care about the remake, Nicholson & Dunham or not, but if Ade got some funds out of it for her next project then it's all good.

Watched this tonight for the first time since seeing it on the big screen thanks to it appearing on a 'top X comedies' list I read online. Happy to say it has not only held up for me in the intervening years, it's funnier than I ever remember it being.

one of my favorite movies of the past 10 years

yes, I only saw it once when it came out, but it really stuck with me, and I'm looking forward to seeing it again - but only with the right people

I think about this film at least once a week. I can't believe what it gets away with.

I remember liking it fine when it came out if not being quite as into it as everyone else, but I imagine upon a second viewing I could change my mind.

She also made The Forest for the Trees and Everyone Else, both amazing films

and each progressively better than the last. hoping for another one from her

I've seen this film and Everyone Else, and I may need to see them again at some point; I just read the plot summaries that were occasionally familiar but seemed emotionally remote from what I remembered of the actual experience of watching them.

I need to rewatch it, but I can say for sure I haven't laughed harder at anything in years than at the culminating scene at the end of the party.

Which is immediately followed by its most heart-tugging scene. The timing of the film's beats is perfect even though its rhythms are odd.

and then Plainsong

too good

"The Greatest Love of All" scene truly among the all-timers

So damned relieved the American version never got made

I feel like a lot of recent Euro comedies have been mean-spirited in a nihilstic, mansplainy kind of way, but this isn't like that at all, and I loved that.

yes, imagine Ruben Östlund directing this thing.

The petit fours scene alone ...