“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” An early festival trailer has debuted for the new film from acclaimed, eccentric, provocative Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude which is titled Kontinental ’25. The film is premiering tomorrow at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival (aka Berlinale) as part of the Main Competition section. The poster (also seen below) is a riff on the original poster for a film titled Europe ’51 (aka Europa ’51) directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring Ingrid Bergman. Kontinental ’25 is described as a “twisted take on Rosellini’s Europe ’51” – which was about a wealthy woman who becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies from suicide. In Radu Jude’s new take, Eszter Tompa stars as Orsolya, who is a a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she must evict a homeless man who lives in the basement of a building. An unexpected event creates a moral crisis she tries to solve as best she can. The cast includes Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, and Șerban Pavlu. This a quick trailer without much footage, but it’s enough to get the attention of cinephiles anxiously awaiting this new Radu Jude joint. It’s his follow-up to last year’s favorite amongst critics Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. // Continue Reading ›
