"Wild, hilarious, and cryptically profound." Buckle up! Mubi has revealed their full trailer for the acclaimed Romanian indie film titled
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, the latest creation by filmmaker
Radu Jude (who won Berlinale's Golden Bear prize in 2021 for
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn). This premiered at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival last year and many critics went berserk for it, heralding it as one of the best films at
any festival last year. However, most people are not going to be into this one - it's nearly 3 hours long, mostly in B&W, following a woman driving around as she makes her own TikToks and cracks semi-offensive jokes all the time (here's
my full review). An overworked and underpaid production assistant has to shoot a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. But an interviewee makes a statement and must then re-invent his story to fit the company's narrative. Starring
Ilinca Manolache as Angela
and "Bobita", plus
Ovidiu Pîrsan,
Nina Hoss,
Dorina Lazar, and
Katia Pascariu. This kind of cinema is absolutely an acquired state, but also absolutely vital cinema nonetheless. //
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