Director: RADU JUDE
163 mins, Romania-France-Croatia, 2023, Digital, Subtitled
Radu Jude’s latest unclassifiable provocation comprises a frantic day in the life of Angela Raducanu (Ilinca Manolache), a production assistant traversing the city of Bucharest, interviewing potential candidates to appear in a workplace safety video, commissioned by an Austrian company for whom Doris (Nina Hoss), a descendant of Goethe, is head of marketing. Meanwhile Angela hones her alarmingly offensive alter ego on social media, Bobita, a grotesquely exaggerated misogynistic caricature, and self-proclaimed friend of media personality Andrew Tate, who is currently facing numerous charges in Romania. She meets Ovidiu (Ovidiu Pîrșan), a wheelchair-bound worker, who gets the part in the video, but when he reveals on camera that his disability is due to the company’s negligence, his revelation ignites a scandal, which forces him to reinvent his story to suit the company’s narrative.
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Notes by David O’Mahony