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Toni Erdmann (Paperback)
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Toni Erdmann (Paperback)
Series: Camden House German Film Classics
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Loot Price R543
Discovery Miles 5 430
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The first in-depth analysis of Maren Ade's acclaimed contemporary
classic, a generational tug-of-war about the meaning of life, work,
and death. 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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