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

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 ...