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Radu Jude Returns to Wry Social Commentary, Absurd ‘Human Comedy’ in Berlin Golden Bear Contender ‘Kontinental ‘25’
Golden Bear winner Radu Jude returns to the Berlin competition with ‘Kontinental ‘25,' about a woman coping with guilt after a terrible tragedy.
Four years after winning the Golden Bear for his irreverent satire “ Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn,” Romanian auteur Radu Jude returns to the Berlinale with his latest feature, “Kontinental ’25,” which premieres Feb. 19 in the festival’s main competition. Jude is a savvy chronicler of the country’s decades-long experiment with gonzo capitalism, and the ongoing “transition period” of the post-socialist era — themes he explored to devastating effect in his withering workplace dramedy “ Do Not Expect too Much From the End of the World,” a 2023 competition entry in Locarno. While determined not to downplay the “degrading and horrible” circumstances of the Ceaușescu regime, which ended with Romania’s rough democratic transition in the 1990s, the director returns time and again to the unraveling of the social order that followed in the strongman’s wake — a period that has “created a lot of suffering for … people who were more or less abandoned by the state.”
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