Depicting the complexities of twenty-first-century living with a signature dark humor, Radu Jude’s films often probe the process of filmmaking and the life of a filmed product itself.

His last feature, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, tells the story of a what happens when a schoolteacher’s private sex tape goes viral. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, his tenth and most recent film, follows an overworked production assistant, Angela Raducanu, as she drives around Bucharest to cast a lead for an Austrian company’s workplace safety videos.

In her brief moments of downtime, Angela films short videos as an Andrew Tate–esque imaginary character, Bobita (based on a real-life Tik Tok series by actress Ilinca Manolache, who plays Angela). Part road movie, part process film, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World is collaged with parts of Lucian Bratu’s 1981 film Angela Goes On, whose quietly radical and matter-of-fact depiction of Elena Ceaușescu–era Romania managed to evade censorship.