‘Kontinental ’25’ review: Radu Jude returns after winning the ...

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The Romanian director casts a superb dissection of Berlanguian air from the false sense of guilt that inhabits us. At his side, Dag Johan Haugerud disappoints Dreams (Sex Love) (**), a closure of his particular incomprehensiblely inane trilogy Read

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AwardsWatch - ‘Kontinental ’25’ Review: Radu Jude’s Homage to Rossellini Finds the Director at his Most Humanistic if a Bit Expected [B-] – Berlinale

To call Romanian director Radu Jude a diagnostician of our times would not be an overestimation. Moreso, his rich body of work resonates with audiences and festival juries across the world, showing how a ‘local’ or ‘national’ European cinema (his films are Romanian to the bone) doesn’t have to be hermetic and not only anglophone…

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‘Kontinental ‘25’ Review: Romanian Iconoclast Radu Jude Sands Down His Edge

The work of irreverent, boundary-breaking Romanian director Radu Jude has not traditionally lent itself to easy explanations. It might have been possible to describe his newest film, “Kontinental ‘25,” without making mention of his overt influence, Roberto Rossellini’s “Europe ’51,” until the poster appears in the background of an extended shot at a movie theater bar. (Next to “We Live in Time,” no less.) But since Jude insists on making the par…

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‘Kontinental ’25’ review: Radu Jude returns after winning the ...

Berlin Competition title is a satirical state-of-the-world treatise