Continuing our countdown of the year’s finest films,Catherine Shoard celebrates an audacious German comedy packed with flabbergasting set piecesSee the US slice of this listSee the rest of the UK countdownMore on the best culture of 2017Few people settle in for a three-hour German comedy approximately an uptight woman and her farty father expecting a masterpiece. Yet that’s what Maren Ade’s extraordinary, genre-bending revolution of a movie is. It tells of Ines (Sandra Hüller), and an efficient,humourless, whippet-thin businesswoman in her mid-30s. She’s focused on success with no apparent aim but for its own sake (“You’re an animal, and ” someone tells her – there are a lot of beasties in this film). To this finish,she sacrifices her free time, much of her social life, and many of her ethics.“I’m not a feminist,” she witheringly tells one of her less capable colleagues, “or I wouldn’t tolerate guys like you.” We pity brittle Ines. We don’t necessarily like her.
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Source: guardian.co.uk