Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World

Directed by Radu Jude
Romania
2023
163 mins

Synopsis

Romanian maverick Radu Jude (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, SFF 2021) returns with a darkly absurdist, hilarious comedy about a woman casting a corporate safety video in Bucharest.

Angela works as a production assistant on a safety awareness video commissioned by a multinational. Tasked with casting the video, she encounters a range of severely injured workers, all competing for the main role – and a cash prize. Worked to the brink, Angela spends her downtime making social media videos in which she spoofs misogynistic boors. Jude intercuts the contemporary action with footage from an actual Romanian film from 1981, Angela Goes On, about a woman taxi driver facing the indignities of working the streets. Unpredictable as ever, Jude weaves a hilarious and biting tale, scathing about Romania, capitalism and much more.

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Funny and furious, this deranged movie is also maybe the sanest film of the year u2026 A dizzying, dazzling feat of social critique, an all-fronts-at-once attack on the zeitgeist, a mischievous, often hilarious work of art about the artifice of work
Jessica Kiang, Variety

Tickets

Wed 5 June 2024, 8:30am
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2
Assisted ListeningWheelchairSubtitled
Thu 13 June 2024, 10:30am
Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 3
Assisted ListeningWheelchairSubtitled
  • Program Strand
  • Original Title
    NU AȘTEPTA PREA MULT DE LA SFÂRȘITUL LUMII
  • Year
    2023
  • Country
    Romania, Luxembourg, France, Croatia
  • Language
    In Romanian with English subtitles
  • Director
    Radu Jude
  • Producer
    Ada Solomon, Radu Jude, Adrian Sitaru
  • Cast
    Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrșan, Nina Hoss
  • Screenwriter
    Radu Jude
  • Cinematographer
    Marius Panduru
  • Editor
    Cătălin Cristuțiu
  • Genre
  • Premiere
    Australian Premiere
  • Company Credits
    Sales Agent: Heretic
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