Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
Nu aștepta prea mult de la sfârșitul lumii
COUNTRIES: Romania, Luxemburg, France, Croatia YEAR: 2023 RUN TIME: 163 min
DIRECTOR: Radu Jude
LANGUAGE(S): Romanian, English
SUBTITLES: English
SCRIPT: Radu Jude
PRODUCTION: Ada Solomon, Adrian Sitaru
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Marius Panduru
EDITOR: Cătălin Cristuțiu
CAST: Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrșan, Nina Hoss
SCREENINGS
SYNOPSIS
Angela is completely overworked. As a production assistant, she struggles through the heavy traffic of Bucharest to cast people for a promotional film. She is looking for victims of industrial accidents who can be used for the cynical agenda of a multinational company in exchange for money. To release the pressure, Angela posts videos on the internet in which she uses a filter to transform herself into a snobbish macho and spouts obscenely sexist tirades. These are just two levels in Radu Jude’s radical kaleidoscope of an apocalyptic society.
‘DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD is complex beyond all measure without being exhausting or even preachy. Jude observes, shows and exposes the layers of a process: everything must always be in motion and grow endlessly. Here, social media are just the perverse extension of a world that distorts itself into the ridiculous just to keep earning money with all this ridiculousness.’ (Sebastian Seidler, kino-zeit.de)
The screening is part of the Film Club of the Filmhaus Nürnberg and followed by a film discussion.
Radu Jude
Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. Jude’s feature debut THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (2009) was selected for more than 50 international film festivals. Titles such as AFERIM!, SCARRED HEARTS and EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY followed and won multiple awards. The international premiere of THE DEAD NATION in Locarno 2017 marked his debut in documentary film. “I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” (2018) won the Crystal Globe for Best Film and Label Europa Cinema Prize in Karlovy Vary in 2018. UPPERCASE PRINT and THE EXIT OF THE TRAINS (co-directed with Adrian Cioflâncă), premiered at Berlinale Forum 2020. His latest feature, BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN, won the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2021. In 2022, Jude returned to Berlinale with a short documentary co-directed with Cioflâncă: MEMORIES FROM THE EASTERN FRONT. His latest short, THE POTEMKINISTS premiered in Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 2022.
The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), Everybody in Our Family (2012), Aferim! (2015), Scarred Hearts (2016), The Dead Nation (2017),“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (2018), The Exit of the Trains (2020), Uppercase Print (2020), Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)