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- 2024
- MUBI
- 2 h 43 m
- 2024
- MUBI
- 2 h 43 m
Summary An overworked and underpaid production assistant must drive around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. When one of her interviewees makes a statement that ignites a scandal she is forced to re-invent the whole story. [MUBI]
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- MUBI
- 2 h 43 m
- 2024
- MUBI
- 2 h 43 m
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
6.7
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Summary An overworked and underpaid production assistant must drive around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. When one of her interviewees makes a statement that ignites a scandal she is forced to re-invent the whole story. [MUBI]
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
95
100% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
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Running a digressive two hours and 43 minutes, this idea-filled absurdist comedy, presented in the fragmented visual language of social media, ties together economic inequities of the European Union, political corruption and the exploitative labour practices of foreign film productions. Also, it’s seriously funny.
It captures what it’s like to live in this chaotic and deadening world so well it might be the movie of the year, and last year, and next year too. If a visitor from the future wanted to know what it was like to be alive right now, this is what I’d show them.
A corrosive rage courses through this 163-minute odyssey that’s matched by a leavening absurdism, Jude aghast at the comical stupidity of our inauthentic, greed-driven world.
Weaving in footage from Lucian Bratu’s 1981 film Angela Moves On (a melodrama following a female taxi driver and set during the heart of Nicolae Ceausescu’s crushing reign in Romania), and capped off by an extended movie-within-a-movie contained in one static shot, Jude’s film is an ambitious experiment of the mad-science variety.
Expansive yet focused, it is a work that is dense in terms of its ideas while also making room for more delicate emotional notes when you least expect it to.
Radu Jude’s literalized mouthful Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World depicts, perhaps, the most accurate representation of the dystopia we live in, and the supposed impending dystopia that we’re in the process of arriving at.
There’s an old thesis that if your comedy is over 90 minutes, it’s probably not funny. A funny comedy should leave the audience tired from laughing by that point. That Radu Jude’s satire Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World clocks in at an epic 163 minutes should be a cause for concern – as should be the presence of bullying schlock director Uwe Boll, even in a cameo as himself.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
6.7
71% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
6.7
71% Positive
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29% Negative
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Production Company
4 Proof Film,
Bord Cadre Films,
Kinorama,
Les Films D'ici,
Paul Thiltges Distributions,
Sovereign Films (II),
microFILM
Release Date Mar 22, 2024
Duration 2 h 43 m
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Awards
Gopo Awards, Romania
• 11 Nominations
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
