Toni Erdmann Will Set Your Priorities Straight

Toni Erdmann Will Set Your Priorities Straightby Marc MohanThe phrase “German comedy” is usually taken as an oxymoron, like “jumbo shrimp” or “functional democracy.” After all, the land of Beethoven, Goethe, and Fassbinder doesn’t exactly have a rich tradition of joviality. Unless you count all those Downfall memes, and even they wear thin after a while.So when you hear that Toni Erdmann is an acclaimed, prize-winning German comedy, and that it’s n