Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude made waves last year with his satirical horror-comedy “Dracula” and is back with “Kontinental ’25” up next, with a cast that features actors such as Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, and Șerban Pavlu.
His new pic is an ode to Robert Rossellini‘s masterwork “Europe ’51,” as Jude’s “Kontinental ’25” follows a Transylvanian woman, played by Tompa, who ends up faced with an ethical dilemma when a man she’s evicting from her building suddenly commits suicide, causing an existential crisis within her.
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An snyopsis for the pic courtesy of the film’s distributor 1-2 Special:
When Orsolya oversees the eviction of a local elderly man in Cluj, Transylvania, the unintended consequences come to shatter her and her understanding of her place in society. Spiraling into an existential crisis, she traverses the city, meeting with various people in her life — her husband, an old friend, her former student, a priest — to consider and reconcile her place in an increasingly maddening modern world in award-winning filmmaker Radu Jude’s latest furious and hysterical moral parable.
Jude is expected to return to the world of movie monsters as he’s tapped Oscar-nominee Sebastian Stan, who recently joined the cast of Matt Reeves‘ “The Batman Part II,” to lead the tentatively titled flick, “Frankenstein In Romania.”
The Playlist also reviewed the film during last year’s Berlin International Film Festival coverage, and you can read our thoughts on the movie right here.
Feel free to check out the impressive trailer for “Kontinental ’25’ below, as Jude’s latest feature film graces screens on March 20.
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