
Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann: Winfried's flashy alter ego. Disguised in a ta... (Full plot summary below)
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Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann: Winfried's flashy alter ego. Disguised in a tacky suit, weird wig and fake teeth, Toni barges into Ines' work circle, claiming to be her CEO's life coach. As Toni, Winfried doesn't hold back, and Ines meets the challenge. The harder they push, the closer they become. In all the madness, Ines begins to see that her eccentric father deserves a place in her life.
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| EmpireIan FreerSet in the unpromising world of German business consultancy, Toni Erdmann is a low-key triumph, especially for writer-director Maren Ade and star Sandra Hüller. A weird, thoughtful, affecting treat. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsAs great as you've heard, and probably even greater. |
| Cinemanía (Spain)Andrea G. BermejoThe movie that will make you rethink your life and look at joke shops with better eyes. We all need a Toni Erdmann. [Full review in Spanish] |
| National PostChris KnightIt has important things to say about how one culture can be foisted on another in the name of globalization or efficiency. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesComedies are supposed to be short, but this German farce... succeeds by virtue of its endlessness-like its hero, an aging piano teacher and irrepressible joker, the movie keeps bugging you and bugging you until you can't help but laugh. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIt has found a considerable, gratefully discombobulated audience all around the world, and it deserves one here. |
| Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniAn immensely rich, deeply felt exploration of human relationships that draws you in and holds you fast for nearly three hours. |
| The AtlanticDavid SimsIt's some new, evolved form of awkward comedy that doesn't strive to make the audience wince, but rather lives in every joyously strange, unsettling moment. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyThere isn't a question in any of the filming; Ade's sense of representation is one of confident approximations. In sticking to a familiarly unquestioned sense of cinematic reality, she empties it of psychological reality; it's a movie with no inner life. |
| TheWrapDave WhiteToni Erdmann is a thoroughly confident and impeccably executed comedy of oddball family functionality. |