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To start discussing Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World, it's worth mentioning one thing: if something earns applause from John Waters (Pink Flamingos), you can be sure it will be wild. Directed by the provocative Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn), the story follows a busy and underpaid production assistant (Ilinca Manolache) who must film a safety video for a multinational company. However, a statement in the video sparks a controversy that spirals into chaos. Filmed as a mockumentary, the film is a fierce, intriguing, and hilariously acidic critique of modern society, its vices, its cynicism, and its contradictions. Featuring Nina Hoss (Tár) and Uwe Boll, considered one of the worst filmmakers in history.
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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.
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Uppercase Print
'Uppercase Print' is a great feat for being such a well-done adaptation of theater, very different from what we're used to seeing in Hollywood productions - especially the more recent Netflix ones like 'Graduation Party' and 'The Boys in the Band', which end up tiring the viewer with slow pacing and excessive dialogue. Romanian director Radu Jude managed to find an ideal balance between theater and cinema. Of course, it's not completely dissociated from the idea that 'Uppercase Print' was a narrative made to be a play, but the merit is also appreciated on television. It is important to emphasize that this is not a conventional movie and this only makes everything even more interesting in this production from Romania.
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Award-winning production at the Berlin Film Festival, 'Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc' has a story that is divided into four distinct moments. The first is a kind of prologue, living up to the title of the film directed and written by Radu Jude: a pure and simple pornographic movie. Over three minutes, we see explicit sex on the screen, without any kind of shame. Then, the pink screen and the chapter division adopted by Jude appear. From there begins the brilliance of 'Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc', with scenes of the protagonist (Katia Pascariu) walking through the streets of Romania shortly after this three-minute video leaks on the internet. Jude is not concerned here to explore exactly the story of the leak, but what follows from it in the life and behavior of the vandalized and exposed character. In this first part, the director bets on subtlety. There are phallic references throughout the city, suggesting that sex is everywhere. There are also spaces, architectures and even advertisements that suggest the same reference - an advertisement, for example, shows a woman intensely sucking ice cream. In addition, there are looks, laughs, jeers. Emilia, this so real protagonist, seems to be hit by cannonballs from all sides. Then comes the most experimental part of the film, when Jude puts a glossary on the screen. Contrary to expectations, there is no didacticism here. After all, while we see the terms brought by the filmmaker and screenwriter for emphasis, at the same time we read information about those works that contradict each other. It is clear that the film is about the growing hypocrisy of a conservative Romanian society only in appearances. Then, in the third part, Jude kicks the door and screams: we live in a contradiction, in a hypocrisy that does not sustain itself. After all, in this last part of the narrative, Emilia is put against the wall. We finally know that she is a teacher and that the video is already circulating among parents and teachers. With a farcical tone, which is even less natural because of the farce of our own society, 'Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc' becomes a manifesto against the hypocrisy that reigns in the world where everyone does what Emilia does, but they are the first to throw stones at her. Filming.
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