It manages to hold your attention for its nearly 3 hour time span which is amazing. Personally, I think many of the scenes of the company meetings w/ the daughter could have been tightened up a bit, but perhaps the director was going for that effect - all of that corporate talk is meant to sound lifeless and uncomfortably long to some viewers. It helps emphasize the gulf between the daughter (figures & facts, cell phone calls, meetings, promotions) and father (spontaneous and playful - lives more "in the moment").
I'm not sure what to think of the remake with Wiig and Nicholson. On one hand, it might make people curious about the original and they end up seeing it too. On the other hand, it also feels rather....pointless? We have a great film that just came out that's available to watch. No need of a remake in my opinion. If it's about taking off subtitles and making more box office dollars, I don't think a drama like this is meant to be making big dollars anyways.
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