‘Kontinental ’25’ Review: Radu Jude’s Assault On Gentrification In Romania Finds Him In Surprisingly Contemplative Mood – Berlin Film Festival
deadline.comRomanian hell-raiser Radu Jude won the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2021 with the anarchic Covid-era call to arms Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, in which a teacher is persecuted by her school’s community when a sex video her husband made somehow leaks on to the internet.
Now, after his even more explosive Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World and a brace of more experimental documentaries screened in the Locarno Film Festival — he is nothing if not prolific — he returns in what counts for him as a contemplative mood.
Kontinental ’25 bundles up his usual firecracker concerns: the rise of cowboy capitalism in Romania, the enduring racism in Eastern Europe, the dissolution of social bonds and what that means for the poor.
It also has the highest count of mechanical models in any film since Toy Story, popping up at apparent random, and some rampantly inappropriate inter-generational sex in a park.
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