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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

(Nu astepta prea mult de la sfârsitul lumii, Radu Jude, 2023)

Columbus Premiere

A blond woman in a colorful, sequined shirt takes selfies in a large, clean bathroom while another woman peers her head into the open doorway.

Romanian director Radu Jude blends the absurd and the incisive to create a truly singular film experience that captures today’s unrelenting, utterly maddening world of work.

In the indescribable Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Angela is an overworked and underpaid production assistant. Assigned to help cast a safety equipment video, she drives around Bucharest auditioning people who suffered workplace injuries. Meanwhile, she’s making spontaneous TikTok videos as her alter ego “Bobita,” a face-filtered, trash-talking, right-wing Andrew Tate-esque figure with a large following. Bucharest’s past is incorporated to this swirl of storylines via footage from the 1981 feminist documentary Angela Moves On, which follows a female cabbie driving the same streets as the film’s protagonist. Featuring memorable cameos by “the world’s worst director” Uwe Boll and the great German actress Nina Hoss (Tár, Phoenix), the film received the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival. In Romanian, German, Hungarian, Italian, and English with English subtitles. (163 mins., DCP) 

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Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, courtesy of MUBI.

"Funny and furious, crude and subtle, unkempt and thoroughly disciplined, this deranged movie is also maybe the sanest film of the year."

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FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY 
National Endowment for the Arts 
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY 
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY 
Ohio Department of Development

Greater Columbus Arts Council

The Wexner Family 
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts 
CampusParc 
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme 
The Columbus Foundation 
Axium Packaging
Nationwide Foundation 
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease

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Mike and Paige Crane 
Nancy Kramer 
Ohio State Energy Partners 
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection 
Larry and Donna James 
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang 
Bruce and Joy Soll 
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle 
Jones Day 
Alex and Renée Shumate

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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World