Toni Erdmann
Please note the purpose of this blog is to discuss established classics that I've never seen. As such, the following is laden with spoilers. Why So Long? It was one of those ones that just passes you by on its release. Work and other commitments flare up at the wrong time and before you know it the film has finished its limited run at the local arthouse whilst film Twitter has moved onto something else. I kept meaning to come back to it but pitching the idea of a three-hour long German comedy to others is, sadly, a hard sell. And? So, it's not outrageously funny, nor is it even, if one is being honest, laugh out loud funny. It certainly has its hilarious moments but the film is three hours long, the laughs are somewhat spread out. It is definitely an enjoyable comedy, but one that, for all its use of cringe for humour knocks it out of the park when it comes to pathos and warmth. And although one would argue those two things are somewhat the opposite of each other,
