The Beast and Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, both with odd releases, offer bold visions for audiences
It is a strange weekend for lovers of art-house cinema in Canada. This Friday, two of the year’s most challenging – but rewarding and invigorating – films open in Canadian theatres. Both were critical hits on last year’s festival circuit, and both are likely to linger long after the dust of 2024 has settled. But the hardest part of unlocking Bertrand Bonello’sis not analyzing their themes or aesthetics, but figuring out their curious release strategies..
The confrontational and playful Romanian filmmaker has been alighting the international cinema scene for a good decade now, and just about escaped into the wider cultural conversation with 2021′s absurd, explicit and brilliant satire, far and away the best movie made about, and during, the pandemic. But Jude graduates to a new level of controlled chaos withRadu Jude graduates to a new level of controlled chaos with Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.
A harried production assistant helping put together a workplace-safety film for a dubiously ethical megacorporation, Angela spends much of her time driving across Bucharest, sussing out the onscreen potential of workers who have been injured on the job.
Yet it all works, with its many preoccupations – the gig economy, TiKTok, Romanian history, the immaturity of the European film industry, worker exploitation – culminating in an epic, wild ride whose presumed destination is hell itself. Godspeed to any adventurous Canadian moviegoer who manages to figure out a route down Jude’s particular road.Switch gears. Give your brain a workout and do today's Daily Cryptic Crossword.
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