Toni Erdmann
A question of performance -- A Cannes sensation -- Learning from Andy Kaufman -- "I like countries with a middle class" -- The end(s) of sleep -- "What do you mean by 'happy'?" -- "Merkel Kino?
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Rochester, NY
Camden House
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | German film classics
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A question of performance -- A Cannes sensation -- Learning from Andy Kaufman -- "I like countries with a middle class" -- The end(s) of sleep -- "What do you mean by 'happy'?" -- "Merkel Kino? "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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| Beschreibung: | 74 Seiten Illustrationen 19 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781640141094 978-1-64014-109-4 |