After 4 years of profit, Golden Bear returns to Berlinal for his tenacious satire “unhealthy luck explosion or weird porn”, with his latest feature “Kontinental '25”, The feature premiered on February 19, and it is a major contender for Pageant's main competitor. .
The film follows a bailiff, Eszter Tompa, who falls into a moral disaster after a homeless man attempts to expel suicide. Fighting against a deep sense of inner feelings, she seemed to be in order to alleviate the obstacles, and she became increasingly firmer for external assurance and verification.
Statement is simpler than completion. As you might expect from one of the world's main provocateurs, Orsolya's circle seeks to cash in on Jude's larger problem, fueling moral relativity , post-socialist economics, nationalism and the Romanian housing disaster (how little is limited to) moral relativity. Where these themes come together – and the way every woman responds to them as relaxed as Orsolya – is perhaps the greatest inquiry in the film.
“Once we ask about personal reactions to tragedy, we often find them on the edge of ridicule,” Jude explained. Taking the soul of conscience as an example, her anger at Ukraine's struggle on social media predates a few seconds later , shared her lunch image. “I’m not judging – I do it too – but I find that there is a comedy among these contradictions, which is actually the “human comedy” of Barzasia. It’s the irony and extra mirror image of the absurdity and complexity of human reactions. ”
Despite all the focus on such common questions, “Kontinental '25” may be a film about modern Romania. Jude is a skilled chronicle of decades of experiments on Gonzo Capitalism across the country, and the ongoing “transitional interval” of the post-socialist period – he explores his office of wilt The theme of the drama that suffers devastating influence. The end of the world”, the competitors in 2023 entered Locknow.
Although the decision not to downplay the “degraded and terrible” situation of the Kuf Escu regime, the end of the difficult democratic transition in Romania in the nineteen nineties, the director returned to the end of the strongman time and time again. The social order – interval “has caused a lot of struggle for… the abandoned individuals in the state.”
If something happens, the challenge has evolved into an extra obvious one, as the world becomes an extra barrier-free one – or, perhaps, because it is as much as the crazy glory of Radu Jude. In November, Romania finally elected a far-right pro-Russian candidate to become its later president, merely for the purpose of being abolished by the Constitutional Court case files, as a result of allegations of Kremlin intervention. In short, the country's outgoing president resigns, which is more reasonable than being subject to strict parliamentary incidents in the face of impeachment.
Despite being attracted by turmoil, the director can respect the extra tilt of his country at least with a certain irony. Jude points to the current return to Donald Trump’s white home in Romania for several years, “the United States. He said: “Always proven by us (usually with advantages) to be an important mannequin, as an important one.” We should not always respect only but imitate the democracy. “So, now we imitate this nice democracies, who simply elected a group of arrogant fascists to rule the world. ”
Absorbing load. orsolya is not nothing. “In one way, her moral disaster is an easy way,” Jude said. “But, I have to admit that I misplaced the position as much as hers about these views. The film tries to capture this kind of thing.” Confused – This is a major theme.”
“Kontinental '25” agrees for Roberto Rossellini's “Europe '51,” a post-war drama that also adopts “the lady consumed by guilt, looking for redemption”, according to Jude. However, the Romanian view is set in the increased city of Transvania, Cluj, “in metaphysical tragedy much less, and in a true modern combination of comedy and drama, he describes it as “A flaming rossellini comic”.
The film is also a train, simplifying, which will make Italian neorealists proud. “Kontinental '25” shot on iPhone once again heard Rossellini known as “poverty of means”, what captured with lighting or grip tools in 10 days, relying solely on dialogue and pure set-Jude's course describes as “liberation.”
The director is currently working on his expected “Dracula” movie, which he hopes will be a “overall reversal” for his Golden Bear contender. He said: “If 'Kontinental'25' is my reply to Roberto Rossellini, please say 'Dracula' is my love letter to Ed Wooden.”
