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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World 18 rating

Radu Judeโ€™s follow-up to the Golden Bear-winning Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a pin-sharp, caustically funny critique of workplace culture and oppression.

Comedy 2023 163 mins

Director: Radu Jude

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Overview

Radu Judeโ€™s delightfully digressive dark satire about the ills of modern life is one of the most remarkable movies of the last year. It follows Angela, an insanely overworked assistant working for a film company, as she drives around auditioning disabled people for a video dubiously promoting safety in the workplace; between encounters she posts bilious TikTok rants pretending to be Andrew Tate. Meanwhile, her wretched existence is contrasted with that of another Angela โ€“ a taxi-driver from a 1981 movie.

Scabrously funny, provocatively topical, unashamedly oddball and often inspired, Judeโ€™s sprawling, crazed but surprisingly coherent comedy skewers both todayโ€™s Romania and the West in general. And the last quarter โ€“ a superb single take โ€“ speaks volumes about the unreliability of the moving image. Radically insightful entertainment.

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