Toni Erdmann's reviews
Media reviews
Los Angeles Times
Ade has an unusual gift for planting more than one idea in each frame; I don?t think there?s a single one of the movie?s 162 minutes that can be reduced to a single emotional beat or narrative function. That hefty running time isn?t a sign of indulgence, but integrity.
The Telegraph
Sweetness and bitterness of the film are held so perfectly in balance.
Cinemanía
The confusion that the director Maren Ade succeeds in this climbing of jokes of almost three hours of duration hides, deep down, a depth that we would never have attributed to the toy handcuffs or naked parties.
Cahiers du Cinéma
The triumph at Cannes, which must not make believe a consensual film, was simply the shock of seeing a masterpiece.
Roger Ebert
[Maren Ade] fully embraces the inherent awkwardness of a testy emotional bond and tackles it to the ground, all the while mining it for heartfelt humor without the all-too-common safety net of predictability found in big-budget Hollywood fare.
New York Times
'Toni Erdmann', proceeding in a perfectly straightforward manner, from one awkward, heartfelt, hilarious scene to the next, wraps itself around some of the thorniest complexities of contemporary reality.
Fotogramas
A delightfully uncomfortable mood that can remind the spirit of the sketches [...] between the most explosive comedy and the most rigorous German realism.
El Mundo
It turns the absurd into delight. [...] A comedy as extravagant as existentially painful. [...] original and risky.
El País
It is an unusual comedy in the best sense, inhabited by splendid gags and situations that provoke laughter [...] mixing realism and surrealism, grotesque and buried tenderness.
The Playlist
Every family is its own country with culture and customs and embarrassments that seem alien beyond its borders, but the genius of Maren Ade?s brilliantly funny and slyly crushing 'Toni Erdmann' is that it makes the utterly foreign nation of its central father/daughter relationship feel so much like home.
Clarin
When it seems that the comedy is going to give rise to the drama, or clashing in clichés, the director of 'Everyone Else' [...] hits the spotlight from the script and makes the characters are adorable.
Rolling Stone
If you're looking for the best and most beguiling foreign-language film of the year, you'll find it in Maren Ade's 'Toni Erdmann', a German father-daughter story that will leave you laughing and choking back tears, often simultaneously.
Le Monde
Around filiation, the German director Maren Ade offers, with 'Toni Erdmann', an invigorating situationist farce.
The Guardian
A leftfield Palme contender emerges in this insightful and sometimes very funny film about a prank-prone dad trying to lighten up his serious businesswoman daughter.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote