2023 · comedy · satire · drama
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Directed by Radu Jude2h 44m2023
On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.
Our read: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive comedy · satire · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured comedy / satire, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- signature
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