EAN: 9781640141094

TONI ERDMANN - GERD GEMÜNDEN KARTONIERT (TB)

Maren Ade's tragicomedy Toni Erdmann  a 2016 Cannes sensation and Oscar nominee  is an
internationally acclaimed classic of recent German cinema. By turns hilarious  cringeworthy 
and heart-wrenching  the film revolves around Winfried  a retired music teacher and prankster
trying to rebuild a relationship with his daughter Ines  a high-powered business consultant
based in Bucharest. At its center  this unpredictable scenario pits one type of performance -
Ines's efforts to meet the unyielding expectations of the new economy - against another -
Winfried's anarchic role-play meant to disrupt the standardization of life. This book  the
first in-depth analysis of the film  explores the many layers of this generational tug-of-war
about the meaning of life  work  and death. Employing Ade's trademark minimalist style  the
film deftly comments on the precarity of life  the gendering of labor in the new economy  the
re-definition of feminism by the children of the generation of 1968  and reconfigured East-West
relations in post-Wall Europe. Lastly  in light of Ade's artisanal mode of filmmaking  in which
she regularly assumes the role of writer  director  and producer  Toni Erdmann becomes a highly
self-reflexive comment on the neoliberal dictates of global art cinema.

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