Watch this when
Toni Erdmann
Your dad's weird jokes might be the only way he knows how to say I miss you. Sometimes you just have to put on the fake teeth. 🦷
Who it's for
Ines has fused so completely with her consulting job that there is little of her left outside it, and Winfried, a lonely prank-loving father grieving his dog, doesn't know how to reach her except through jokes.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Maren Ade's 2016 German comedy-drama follows Winfried Conradi, a divorced music teacher from Aachen with a fondness for pranks and fake personas, who, after his dog dies, turns up unannounced in Bucharest to reconnect with his daughter Ines, a business consultant consumed by an oil-industry outsourcing project.
Where to find it
Rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: A pet's death; sex scenes and nudity.
Age: R (strong sexual content, graphic nudity, language, brief drug use)
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, “On Children”
