LUMI Programmer Reidy introduces us to all things Radu Jude ahead of Belfast Film Festival 2024.
The most exciting thing to catch my eye the morning I scanned over this year’s Belfast Film Festival’s programme was that the president of the international jury was one of my favourite working filmmakers, raving mad Romanian satirist Radu Jude. Jude’s latest fiction film, the sprawling, pitch-black comedy Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World was my favourite film of last year’s festival. A near 3 hour odyssey through the daily life of a put-upon production assistant in Bucharest as she frantically attempts to keep it together while working on a series of somewhat insidious employee training videos about taking responsibility for work-related accidents, few films have better reflected today’s working culture on screen so incisively.
So to help out, I decided I’d write a beginner’s guide to Jude’s work that might prepare people to see him In Conversation at QFT on November 2.
Read Reidy’s full Beginner’s Guide to Radu Jude here