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PMA Films: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

  • Portland Museum of Art 7 Congress Square Portland, ME, 04101 United States (map)

SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM


If a visitor from the future wanted to know what it was like to be alive right now, this is what I’d show them.
— Sam Adams, Slate

164 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Radu Jude. In Romanian and English with English subtitles. DCP.

An overworked and underpaid production assistant must drive around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. When one of her interviewees makes a statement that ignites a scandal she is forced to re-invent the whole story.

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