Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

In a biting satire of modern life, Romanian writer-director Radu Jude's "Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World" follows Angela, a production assistant driven to exhaustion by her job, as she interviews injured workers for a safety video commissioned by a multinational company. Weary and disillusioned, she begins broadcasting on TikTok as an obnoxious influencer, using a video filter to hide her identity. As she navigates the absurdities of late-stage capitalism and internet culture, Angela's frustrations boil over in a film that is both a darkly comedic essay-movie and a scathing critique of the societal ills that plague our world today.