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Toni Erdmann (2016)

Film
DirectorMaren Ade
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Figures

Objects & symbols
  • The Kukeri costume
Locations
  • The film's setting in Bucharest and German-Romanian corporate interactions
Form & technique
  • The "Naked Party" scene → Durational Aesthetics
  • The film's overall visual style and cinematography
  • The "Greatest Love of All" karaoke scene
Tropes
  • Ines's professional conduct and emotional suppression
  • Winfried's "Toni Erdmann" persona
  • The father-daughter dynamic and its uncomfortable humor
  • The film's persistent use of "cringe comedy" (Fremdscham)
  • The contrast between Winfried's pranks and Ines's corporate humor → Carnivalesque Inversion

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