Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World. 2024. Written and directed by Radu Jude

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Held on Sat, Dec 21, 2024, 5:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

Tickets are available to members at the Explore category and above beginning two weeks before each screening date. Additional tickets will be released, to members as well as the general public, one week before each screening date. Please note that space is extremely limited and tickets will be in high demand. Tickets can be reserved at moma.org/contenders beginning at 10:30am ET.

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World. 2024. Romania. Written and directed by Radu Jude. Courtesy MUBI

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World. 2024. Romania. Written and directed by Radu Jude. With Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrsan, Nina Hoss. DCP courtesy MUBI. In Romanian; English subtitles. 163 min.

Romanian auteur Radu Jude’s latest is a sprawling, scathing dark comedy for our times. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World revolves around Angela, an underpaid production assistant driving around Bucharest. Her latest gig has her working long hours auditioning workplace accident victims for a corporate video commissioned by a German multinational (helmed by a mordantly icy Nina Hoss). On the side, Angela livestreams as a face-swapped, foul-mouthed, right-wing alter ego. Jude dazzlingly intercuts this contemporary tale with scenes from the 1981 drama Angela Moves On, which follows a female taxi driver in many of the same locations, and whose rich documentary detail offers a contrasting view from Romania’s past under political censorship. By the time Angela arrives on set, Jude’s meditation on corporate greed and political corruption culminates in what’s destined to be one of the greatest single-take finales of all time.

This film accompanies The Contenders 2024.

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