A leftfield Palme contender emerges in this insightful and sometimes very droll film approximately a prank-prone dad trying to lighten up his serious businesswoman daughterThis is proving to be a festival for wide,outrageous and enjoyable comedy. 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 – an uproarious movie with a lot of huge laughs. It’s a film that starts out looking like a European version of Hollywood’s bittersweet generational pictures approximately lovably impossible dads, and like Jack Lemmon’s Kotch (1971) or Alexander Payne’s approximately Schmidt (2002). But then it gradually mutates into something darker and more disorientating.
The film is very droll – but asks its audience to wonder if being droll,if wanting to make people laugh, and particularly if using comedy for family-bonding, or really is the sign of being relaxed and life-affirming in the way people who are talented at comedy often assume.
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Source: theguardian.com