2023-10-30 07:06:06
Radu Jude is one of the most exciting directors of the moment. After a Golden Bear at the Berlinale for “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”, the Romanian director won the Special Jury Prize in Locarno for his new work “Nu astepta prea mult de la sfarsitul lumii”. As part of the 61st Viennale, he came to the festival headquarters in the Museumsquartier on Sunday evening to talk about his “Bucharest architectural style” and writing scripts.
Normally there are only a small group present at such discussions, Jude said, pleased with the around 100 listeners present – even if it made him a little nervous. Financing films, which take up a lot of time, also makes him nervous. The moment when this is finally secured for a project is “very happy, but also terrible,” says Jude. The script was not yet finished at this point, but at the same time there was certainty that the film would now have to be brought to the stage.
“I don’t have a clear vision of what I’m doing. Every project is a bit of a struggle. I never know in advance that I’ll succeed,” said Jude. Since he makes a living from filmmaking, he has to deliver regularly. “I can’t just wait for inspiration,” he smiled. If someone makes him an offer to make a film, he’ll accept it – as long as he has a certain amount of creative leeway in making it happen. In the past, he said, he has also made a lot of advertising films or films for companies.
His style is influenced by texts, images or trends that he encounters in everyday life. Often they are small, ridiculous, tacky or very bizarre things that would normally be quickly forgotten – such as an angry, publicly posted letter to a man who masturbates in his apartment, but clearly visible to others, or the trend, your own Showing off your butt on social media. The native of Bucharest collects all of this and looks at it again and again in the course of his work.
In “Nu astepta prea mult de la sfarsitul lumii” (Do not expect too much from the end of the world) he not only recorded small everyday sightings, but also several sequences from the 1981 film “Angela merge mai departe” by Lucian Bratu . Like his film, the film shows a woman who travels a lot by car for work. The now aged main character from Bratu’s film even brings Jude into his film. The director explained that he liked “Angela merge mai departe” because the work was very “subversive” and circumvented the censorship of the communist government at the time in details. Jude included some of these subversive elements in his film in slow motion to make them easier for the audience to analyze.
But that’s not all, Jude added a third level by having his main character in “Nu astepta prea mult de la sfarsitul lumii” make extremely obscene short videos in which she poses as a man and talks about sexual achievements, often coupled with the humiliation of women speaks. For most people, this is clearly seen as an exaggeration to show the ridiculousness of such behavior. “But of course it’s also dangerous,” says Jude. After all, in addition to some viewers, some investors would also take this at face value and therefore jump ship. Which brings us back to the problem of financing a film.
(S E R V I C E – www.viennale.at)
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