Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

stjopex This is a great story about society today depicted through a (bohemistic) father-(corporate) daughter relationship. There are couple of memorable scenes which made me bitter laugh out loud. Singing Whitney Houston and an absolute climax at the naked party are some of the best scenes ever. Movie has this Lost In Translation atmosphere where the city of Bucharest is both a medium through which characters interacte and a catalyzer of awkward situations. The film questions family relationships (father senses that life his daughter lives isn't fulfilling), corporate world, cultural and language differences, and above all, society as a whole ("...people are strange when you're a stranger..."). Fantastic acting, smart use of real life people which sometimes feels like Borat and brilliant writing. Thumbs up!

proud_luddite Ines Conradi (Sandra Huller) is a young German globalist consultant living in Bucharest, Romania. Her job is to assist large corporations to outsource jobs and reduce their labour costs. Winfried (Peter Simonischek) is Ines' father who is near retirement and concerned about how distant and workaholic his daughter has become. To relieve his distress, he "visits" her in Bucharest and plays pranks by showing up at Ines' business functions dressed in a bizarre wig and claiming to be "Toni Erdmann, life coach"."Toni Erdmann" is yet another film where I liked the first half better than the second. The beginning section has many genuine moments of social awkwardness and it is candid about our modern times as it exposes the foils of workaholism and the deviousness of globalization. In a few scenes, director/writer Maren Ade cleverly juxtaposes the wealth of the globalist foreigners with the poor living circumstances of average Romanians. One scene amazes in showing how the poor can still be generous despite their circumstances.The latter half is filled with buffoonery with occasional laughs (a bizarre birthday brunch was the highlight) but some of the comedy seems silly and inconsistent with the rest of the story. For example, how could "Toni" have shown up at Ines' after-work events before she does without any indication she told him where she was going to be?Huller gives a fine performance of a complex, inner-conflicted character. She portrays what could be called a villain: a despised, modern archetype - someone who advances her/his own career while casually destroying the livelihoods of others who are less well-off. Yet, she manages, with the help of Ade, to humanize the role without being apologetic for the career choice. The universal theme of "lost childhood" is also well portrayed here in Ines' relationship with Winfried. We get glimpses that she used to be as prankish with him in her early years.Overall, "Toni Erdmann" is a good film despite its flaws and its excessive length. Like the recent "Moonlight", it is a highly acclaimed film that, for me, reaches much of its potential but not all of it.

katvyhh A complete waste of time and money - both of the viewers and the filmmakers. Stay away. Unbelievable, unnatural, pointless and untalented. Off-putting and extremely long. Get an editor!

andre-costea The characters are perfectly framed to describe the fractured relation between a divorced man entertained mostly by his own jokes and his career oriented - forever busy daughter. The movie starts off with what it looks like a cold/monotonous father-daughter relation and progresses with a series of clashes and pranks (some of them eccentric, others pretty dull) that lead to a (more human) tension between the two. This movie can take you through a mix of feelings: amusement (personally, i laughed to tears), cringe (as a consequence of ridiculously embarrassing scenes) and sadness (the ho-hum corporate life, with minor peaks of enthusiasm but mostly covered in tiredness and personal isolation). Would have appreciated a more compact version of this movie, but it was enjoyable nevertheless.