Do not expect too much from the End of the World

About this event

Wednesday August 5th 2026 at Cultplex Manchester Partisan Cinema Presents: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World https://cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll/WhatsOn?f=1221626 Partisan Cinema are very proud to present our first collaboration with Cultplex ( @cpxmcr ) where we will be screening Radu Jude’s 2023 satirical absurdist black comedy Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World follows Angela, a production coordinator in Bucharest who spends much of her day driving round the city interviewing injured employees of a multinational corporation for a ‘Safety at Work’ video. Intercut with the Andrew Tate-style TikToks Angela makes to blow off steam on her long days, as well as footage from a 1981 film about a female taxi driver in the Romanian capital, a complex interrogation of the interaction between labour, gender and bodily danger emerges. Radu Jude’s darkly comic exploration of exploitation at work in the twenty-first century flits between Zoom screen, phone camera and archival footage providing an at times uncomfortable but always compelling perspective on the absurdity and obscenity of being alive in the current moment. Radu Jude’s filmmaking is as discordant, poetic, dense and impressive as you would hope. This is not one to be missed.