‘Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade’

German, feminist and two and a half hours long. Yet Toni Erdmann is the best comedy you’ll see this year. If you are not under your seat doubled up with laughter or with embarrassment for others. Or overcome with emotion, because here are two people simply doing their best, even though that is not enough. With this, her third work, director Maren Ade has really made a name for herself as an international filmmaker. Her unique film is at the same time the disturbing portrait of a father and daughter who have grown apart and a hilarious critique of our achievement-oriented society. Career men and women are (quite literally) stripped naked.