Kontinental '25

There are any number of unique and memorable lines in Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s characteristically stinging “Kontinental ’25,” but the most trenchant of them all is borrowed secondhand from Bertolt Brecht: “The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to die.”…

davidehrlich

-Why are you filming?  -For evidence.

Lorenzo Sartor

Whole world is evil, you're part of the evil, nothing will ever change, but if you want you can feel bad about it. Or not! Was fun learning about different kinds of Eastern European prejudices.

Will Sloan

Mass complicity (albeit not illegal, that’s key!) via bearing witness. Radu’s as trenchant and angry as ever. Life once existed all over this place but you’d never know it by all the dumb garbage we paper over it. Last few minutes are devastating.

Brandon Streussnig

Jude's high-concept provocations play better when they feel more intimate, as they do here. His moral anger replaces the dramatic fireworks, which, along with the main character's guilt trip, are designed to be shallow. There is no postwar humanism that allowed European…

Filipe Furtado

I read about a guy in South Korea who was crushed to death by a food-packing robot. It mistook him for a can.

Isaac Feldberg

A very minor Radu Jude satire. All the usual enemies are here—nationalism, xenophobia, capitalism, and wars—but where's the humor? If anything, this aligns more with Italian neorealism than Jude's trademark surrealistic political satire, which isn't inherently bad, but…

nick

“what more could you have done?” watch for the dinosaur exhibition in the woods and Gaza 🇵🇸, Ukraine 🇺🇦, and Yemen 🇾🇪 mentions — Radu Jude’s latest satire, Kontinental ‘25, involved him shooting the whole film for almost no budget, using only an iPhone 15 and tripod…

Jackie

Unsure how I feel about the ending, but overall another terrific satire from Radu Jude, layered in its political and humanist commentary, with Eszter Tompa a riveting centre oscillating between conscience and complacency. It also has a Perfect Days joke, so naturally I…

CalvinLaw