Yet when the jury for the Palme — Cannes’ top award — was distributing prizes at the end of the fest, Toni Erdmann went home empty-handed. A lot of critics felt the film was robbed and so was German writer/director Ade, but she’s more philosophical about the matter. Had it been up to critics attending the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Maren Ade’s offbeat comedy Toni Erdmann may well have won the Palme d’Or. Toni Erdmann, now playing at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, was named this past week as one of five nominees for Best Foreign Language Film at the Feb. 26 Academy Awards. Was he at all an inspiration for Peter Simonischek’s Winnie in Toni Erdmann?

Source: thestar January 29, 2017 11:01 UTC