Hyperactive, pointedly disjointed: The films of Radu Jude refuse coherence. Postmodern in sensibility and formally playful, they lurch and twist and somersault, rafting on the roiling whitewater of 21st-century cultural experience. Boosting this universal churn with the local turbulence of his home country of Romania, Jude’s energetic, unpredictable cinema hits the viewer full in the face with dissonant froth and spray.
Fragmentation is the golden rule here. Stubbornly uncategorizable in their devious hybridity, the films in this collection respond to and interiorize the torrent of the information age. But they also owe much to the intensity of Romania’s recent history: the full-body spasms of regime change and rebirth.
An anarchic arthouse mash-up, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (2023) is a six-lane expressway of a film, culminating in a one-take, multi-vehicle shunt. Following a harangued production assistant running on empty in Bucharest, Jude’s absurdist drama models its stop-start motion after the gridlock and indignity of the gig economy. No less of a provocative oddity, Eight Postcards From Utopia (2024) is a documentary-cum-essay film, codirected with philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz. A heterophonic montage of 30 years of television commercials, cuckoo with consumerist fervor, this bizarre battery of brands and taglines bottles the effervescing energy of postcommunist Romania—as seen on TV.
Specializing in collage and sardonic observation, these talkative films hustle the Romanian New Wave into ever more exciting and unexpected territory.

Hyperactive, pointedly disjointed: The films of Radu Jude refuse coherence. Postmodern in sensibility and formally playful, they lurch and twist and somersault, rafting on the roiling whitewater of 21st-century cultural experience. Boosting this universal churn with the local turbulence of his home country of Romania, Jude&#8217;s energetic, unpredictable cinema hits the viewer full in the face with dissonant froth and spray.
Fragmentation is the golden rule here. Stubbornly uncategorizable in their devious hybridity, the films in this collection respond to and interiorize the torrent of the information age. But they also owe much to the intensity of Romania&#8217;s recent history: the full-body spasms of regime change and rebirth.
An anarchic arthouse mash-up, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (2023) is a six-lane expressway of a film, culminating in a one-take, multi-vehicle shunt. Following a harangued production assistant running on empty in Bucharest, Jude&#8217;s absurdist drama models its stop-start motion after the gridlock and indignity of the gig economy. No less of a provocative oddity, Eight Postcards From Utopia (2024) is a documentary-cum-essay film, codirected with philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz. A heterophonic montage of 30 years of television commercials, cuckoo with consumerist fervor, this bizarre battery of brands and taglines bottles the effervescing energy of postcommunist Romania&#8212;as seen on TV.
Specializing in collage and sardonic observation, these talkative films hustle the Romanian New Wave into ever more exciting and unexpected territory.

Postcards From the Edge:  Two by Radu Jude

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE:  TWO BY RADU JUDE

Rafting down the whitewater chute of the 21st-century experience, Romanian director Radu Jude embraces turbulence with absurdist humor and a collagist’s glue stick. Boldly polytonal and bitterly political, his unpredictable cinema hits the viewer full in the face with dissonant froth and spray.

Rafting down the whitewater chute of the 21st-century experience, Romanian director Radu Jude embraces turbulence with absurdist humor and a collagist&#8217;s glue stick. Boldly polytonal and bitterly political, his unpredictable cinema hits the viewer full in the face with dissonant froth and spray.

Two by Radu Jude

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TWO BY RADU JUDE

Postcards From the Edge: 

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POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE: 

Contains material and themes suitable only for mature audiences.

domestic violence

discriminatory language

Radu Jude

Christian Ferencz-Flatz

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Eight Postcards from Utopia

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EIGHT POSTCARDS FROM UTOPIA

strobe lighting

graphic sexual content

injury detail

Locarno International Film Festival

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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

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DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD