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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Romanian: Nu aștepta prea mult de la sfârșitul lumii) is a 2023 black comedy film written and directed by Radu Jude. It stars Ilinca Manolache with supporting performances by Nina Hoss and Uwe Boll. It is a co-production among Romania, Croatia, France and Luxembourg.
The film premiered at the main competition of the 2023 Locarno Film Festival, where it received critical acclaim, and the Special Jury Prize. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World was later screened at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and at the 2023 New York Film Festival. It was selected as Romanian entry in the Best International Feature Film category for the 96th Academy Awards on September 8, 2023.




Premise


The film has been described as a "(t)ale of Cinema and Economics in Two Parts: overworked and underpaid, Angela drives around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a 'safety at work video' commissioned by a multinational company." The film contains footage (sometimes put into slow motion or still frame) of a 1981 film about a female taxi driver in Bucharest (Angela merge mai departe, by Lucian Bratu). Modern day Angela visits many of the locations used in the 1981 film, and the shooting and content of her own Tiktok videos are also included. The second, much shorter section of the film consists of the shooting of the safety promotion campaign video in front of the entrance to the chosen employee's factory.




Cast


Ilinca Manolache as Angela
Nina Hoss as Doris Goethe
Katia Pascariu
Sofia Nicolaescu
Uwe Boll as himself
László Miske
Ovidiu Pîrsan
Dorina Lazar
Alex M. Dascalu as Dan Trofăilă




Production


The title comes from an aphorism by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. The film is Jude's longest fiction film so far.




Release


Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World premiered at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival on 4 August 2023, where it received the Special Jury Prize. It was also invited at the 28th Busan International Film Festival in 'Icon' section and was screened on 5 October 2023.
Mubi had acquired all rights of the film for the US, as well as streaming rights in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, India, Turkey and Latin America. The film was released on Mubi on 4 May 2024.
The film was released theatrically in Romania on 27 October 2023.




Reception


On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of 74 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "As unique and breathlessly expansive as its title, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World adds to the evidence supporting Radu Jude's status as a uniquely gifted and provocative filmmaker."
In his review for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw described Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World as follows: "Freewheeling essay-movie-slash-black-comedy collage takes swipes from all angles at modern life.". Matthew Joseph Jenner, writing for the International Cinephile Society, stated that the film is "a truly ambitious, beautifully complex, and deeply compelling masterpiece of purely playful postmodernism, which has never been more urgently required than it is at the present moment". The film also received very positive reviews in Indie Wire, Le Monde, D Movies, Screen Daily and Deadline, among others.
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World was ranked seventh on Cahiers du Cinéma's top 10 films of 2023 list.




See also


List of submissions to the 96th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
List of Romanian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film




References






External links


Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World at IMDb
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World at Rotten Tomatoes

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