“Toni Erdmann” from director Maren Ade’s the only German contribution in this year’s competition of the Cannes Film Festival. He tells of a humorous father, who visited his daughter, a successful businesswoman, with a project in Romania. The two different characters collide.
In order to get closer to his daughter, Winfried disguised as shrill fictional character Toni Erdmann. In the first screening of the film, there was spontaneous applause, the international critics were enthusiastic.
“I work incredibly long on such a project,” said Ade (39) on Saturday in Cannes in an interview with the German Press Agency. An “Toni Erdmann” they have worked four and a half years, almost every day
question. Why did you “all others” through a pair decided after the drama, now at about a father-daughter relationship tell
Answer: I was interested to tell about family. That was an issue that longer rumging my head. On the one hand this stereotyped role that everyone in his family often plays. I wanted to do with the role play, the father and daughter, with the radical transformation that the father as does in this new character Toni because I wanted to oppose a bit of a breakout fantasy of this family corset.
(.. .) I have already noticed while writing that it is a rewarding topic, this parent-child issue and that it is also relatively emotionally. It offers plenty of hidden aggression, but also to desires. And the parent-child relationship is lifelong. Therefore, it is also a heavy topic. The humor comes of course with the figure of Winfried, with its marked propensity for joking
Question:. Although the film is about Winfried and his daughter Ines, but speaks also a more general conflict between the generations, or
Answer: the father is so a typical representative – perhaps something very German – the postwar generation: the well so had an anti-authoritarian parenting style, who want much freedom, much self-determination for their children. And that has now also a bit into its opposite wrong: On the one hand the daughter is gone out into the world, he has no longer at home. That is, the contact is a bit aborted. In addition, it has taken a very performance-oriented profession that they themselves may also be unable to defend itself always morally
Q:.? Judging perhaps not in families sometimes very bluntly with one another to
Answer : exactly, every family’s different. Some wear it out very open, some are all the time passive-aggressive. There are some who are really good. I have a feeling that it does both (characters in the film, n.) Well, that they can live out their aggressions open. That the father and his father’s role sheds with this Toni and his daughter so free can face – also critical
PERSONAL:. Maren Ade, born in Karlsruhe in 1976, studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Her graduation film “The Forest for the Trees” (2003) about an idealistic, but overstrained teacher won international prices. Followed in 2009, the relationship drama “All others” with Birgit Minichmayr and Lars Eidinger as a couple in crisis. Ade was awarded at the Berlinale with the Grand Jury Prize. “Toni Erdmann” is her third feature film. Ade (39) lives in Berlin.
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