Radu Jude directs Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrsan and Nina Hoss in this Romanian political comedy where a part time influencer travels about trying to audition workers who have suffered industrial accidents for a Health & Safety video.

Three hours of the last gasps of a true world before it is consumed by corporate malfeasance and digital unreality. There are some fantastic moments here and it makes its points well. The in-your-face rudeness of Jude’s vision and Manolache’s lynchpin turn resonates. Yet at two features lengths it is just too grinding, running out of anything new to say at the midway marker. I have seen this alt-Godard praised to high heaven. I think it has to do with its purposefully unwieldy length and pixel prescience. Like a 1000 page novel with experimental writing and groundbreaking ideas it is an inevitability that those who chose to complete it have to embrace it. Otherwise, why did they waste their time?

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