linca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrșan, Dorina Lazăr, Nina Hoss, Uwe Boll
From Radu Jude, Romanian filmmaker and director of the Berlinale-winning Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) comes this “dizzying, dazzling feat of social critique, an all-fronts-at-once attack on the zeitgeist, and a mischievous, often hilarious work of art about the artifice of work” (Variety), which won Jude the Special Jury Prize at Locarno Film Festival.
Structured in two parts that revolve around the production of a ‘safety at work’ video commissioned by a multinational company, Jude’s drama is a freewheeling essay-movie-slash-black-comedy that takes swipes at the absurdities of modern life in a post-totalitarian digital age.
A pin-sharp, caustically funny and furious film from one of the most interesting directors to emerge from the Romanian New Wave, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World is full of contradictions and digressions, surprising tonal shifts, and an endlessly anarchic sense of creativity.