Don’t Expect Too Much From the End of the World – The Living and The Dead

4 August, 2023

For the first time since 2017, when he unveiled The Dead Nation (a documentary on the Romanian Holocaust) in the Signs of Life section, Radu Jude returns with a feature film to Locarno, this time in the main competition – with the second-longest film of his career, (surpassed in length only by his 2020 documentary The Exit of the Trains), Don't Expect Too Much From the End of the World: a sharp continuation of the explorations that he opened up in Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, both in terms of social critique and of a deeper reflection on the nature of images and montage.

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Film critic & journalist. Collaborates with local and international outlets, programs a short film festival - BIEFF, does occasional moderating gigs and is working on a PhD thesis about home movies. At Films in Frame, she writes the monthly editorial - The State of Cinema and is the magazine's main festival reporter.