In two receptions, I watched the highly praised film by German director Maren Ade “Tony Erdmann”, which received the FIPRESCI prize at the Cannes Film Festival. An already very old music teacher, distinguished in his life by his penchant for stupid and completely unfunny jokes, which he constantly shows at every step (for example,
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In two receptions, I watched the highly praised film by German director Maren Ade “Tony Erdmann”, which received the FIPRESCI prize at the Cannes Film Festival. An already very old music teacher, distinguished in his life by his penchant for stupid and completely unfunny jokes, which he constantly shows at every step (for example, a song in the style of ridiculous zombies at a school party dedicated to the retirement of the principal, an antics with an impatient postman), understands that he has completely lost touch with his daughter – a very successful, at first glance, businesswoman, and decides to establish contact with her. To do this, he goes to visit her in Bucharest, where she is at this time completing one of her business projects, putting her in an uncomfortable position with her ridiculous "jokes" and constantly ruining her plans. In principle, this is another film about human loneliness, about pseudo-values invented by people, about pseudo-projects of all sorts of business gurus, about the inability to establish relationships and appreciate them, all their values turn out to be as ridiculous a parody of them as all the jokes of the main character. Looking at what is happening, you constantly feel awkward for almost all the characters without exception and for their very strange sometimes actions. For a moment it seems that he managed to awaken some feelings in his daughter, but, most likely, she will once again be able to strangle her impulses and she will go to Singapore to sell her business ideas. And it would have turned out, perhaps, a very good film, if not for the long time – 2 hours and 40 minutes is a lot for such a story, except that the director had the goal of “getting us to the fullest”, as they say today.
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