DO NOT EXPECT
TOO MUCH FROM
THE END OF THE WORLD
(NU ASTEPTA PREA MULT DE LA SFÂRŚITUL LUMII)
a film by Radu Jude
FEATURE PRESENTATION
JUNE 1, 2024 • 8:00 PM
@ THE BUS STOP THEATRE
(2203 GOTTINGEN STREET, HALIFAX)
2023 / ROMANIA, LUXEMBOURG, FRANCE, CROATIA / 163 mins
In Romanian with English subtitles
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World is the newest release from filmmaker Radu Jude, who rose to prominence in the Romanian New Wave of the mid-aughts and has found new life over a decade later as one of cinema’s prickliest satirists.
The film follows Angela (Ilinca Manolache), a production assistant who’s on the road recording casting interviews with injured employees for a corporation’s bad-faith safety video. Jude’s world is a place where vaudevillian comedy and cratering realism collide, and Do Not Expect Too Much captures Bucharest as a city where you’ve got to laugh to keep from crying.
Following the success of Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, which earned him Berlinale’s Golden Bear in 2021, Jude’s latest is the work of an artist at the height of his powers — one who’s swinging at life’s profound absurdities with a sword that’s never been sharper. —Evan Bower
TRAILER
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Radu Jude
Radu Jude is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), his feature film debut, won the CICAE Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, the FIRESCI Prize at the Sofia International Film Festival, the Prize for Best Screenplay at the Bucharest International Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Prize at IndieLisboa. Before Do Not Expect Too Much… his previous film Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn won the Golden Bear at Berlinale.