With an average of 4.1/5, the urban and acerbic odyssey “Don’t expect too much from the end of the world” is acclaimed by press critics.
Special jury prize at the 76th edition of the Locarno Film Festival held last August, the new film by Romanian director Radu jude, Don’t expect too much from the end of the world, was released this week in theaters. With a press average of 4.1/5, this contemporary and satirical rereading of Alice in Wonderland has generally won over the French critics present on AlloCiné (for 14 media, as of Thursday September 28, 2023).
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT ?
Angela, a production assistant, travels to Bucharest for the casting of an advertisement on workplace safety commissioned by a multinational. This “Alice in the Wonderland of the East” encounters in her exhausting day: big entrepreneurs and real stalkers, rich and poor, people with serious disabilities and sex partners, her digital avatar and another Angela from an old forgotten film, Westerns, a cat, and even the Mad Hatter’s clock…
WHAT THE PRESS THINKS…
According to Les Fiches du Cinéma:
“Radu Jude offers a new cinematic UFO, an acerbic charge as sublime in substance as in his choices of staging of great ingenuity.” (Florent Boutet) 5/5
According to Les Inrockuptibles:
“Radu Jude offers us one of the great political films of the year. Rarely has a film shown all the cynicism and ignominy of neoliberal capitalism in such a striking way.” (Robin Vaz) 5/5
According to Cahiers du Cinéma:
“Don’t wait… is full like an egg, you have to have a stomach: it is, after all, a matter of capturing an age of nausea and saturation. Cinema is no exception, in Jude, to general pollution, to this massive impurity, which is no longer just a theoretical option, has become a daily, biological and mental experience. (Hervé Aubron) 4/5
According to Critikat.com:
“Radu Jude’s aesthetic combines various influences to invent a form which nevertheless already resembles no other, at once gluttonous, acerbic and strangely racy.” (Josué Morel) 4/5
According to L’Obs:
“This amphetamine version of Alice in Wonderland is simply enjoyable.” (François Forestier) 4/5
According to Le Monde:
“Playing the examination through editing, banking on the comparative shock of images, Radu Jude thus asserts himself as one of the rare credible disciples of Jean-Luc Godard.” (Ma. Mt.) 4/5
According to Première:
“Masterful. Politicized at its heart, this scathing comedy has the elegance of remaining at a distance, as if to better allow introspection. Radu Jude is afraid of nothing, and especially not of letting his film speak for itself. ” (Lucie Chiquer) 4/5
According to Defector:
“With mischief, the Romanian filmmaker pays homage to the art of collage in the vein of Isidore Isou, Godard or Debord, to force images to reintegrate their protest power. He reminds us of their political power , denouncing the Uberization of a society deprived of basic labor rights.” (Séverine Danflous) 4/5