Kontinental '25 Review: Radu Jude's Acerbic, Awkwardly Funny Social Critique Examines The Cost Of Urban Renewal

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Radu Jude's bleakly funny social critique Kontinental '25 shares a certain bemused resignation with Ling Ma's 2018 post-apocalyptic novel Severance. Both texts wonder what we've sacrificed by letting our lives be overcome by capitalist pursuit. In Ma's novel, Candace Chen muses on the privileges – and the costs – of urban life: "To live in a city is to consume its offerings.To drink at its bars. To shop at its stores. To pay its sales taxes. To give a dollar to its homeless... to propagate its impossible systems."
Gregory Nussen

Kontinental '25 Review: Radu Jude's Acerbic, Awkwardly Funny Social Critique Examines The Cost Of Urban Renewal

The Romanian iconoclastic director Radu Jude's latest film goes for a more intimate approach in criticizing our tendency to erase the past.

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