Sunday, July 31, 2022

Toni Erdmann

One thing I liked about Toni Erdmann - and which is a key part of why it's good - is the way that its two main characters, while extremes of sorts and while engaging in some pretty off-the-wall behaviour, are always grounded in realism, psychologically and in terms of the worlds they inhabit. And the movie is also good in the way those (late capitalist) worlds themselves come into focus as a subject in their own right. I wasn't completely enthralled, but I liked it.