Overview
A satirical look at the absurdities of corporate culture and the chaos of modern life.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Labyrinthine
- Violence
- Mild
- caustic
- irreverent
- frantic
- political film night
- arthouse cinema night
What critics said
Critics broadly regard Radu Jude's formally audacious dark satire as a complex, urgent, and highly compelling portrait of contemporary work and media culture.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The production-assistant storyline incorporates interviews, media fragments, and contrasting narrative materials into a freewheeling collage.
Angela's commissioned safety-video work turns bureaucratic errands, corporate messaging, and workplace fatalities into bleak comic encounters.
The overworked assistant navigates underpaid production work, gig-like mobility, workplace injuries, and multinational corporate demands.
The film engages internet culture and TikTok-style self-presentation alongside misogyny and workplace harassment.
Films like Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, and why
Sorry We Missed You
caustic workplace satire, contemporary capitalism critique, and abrasive comic energy
The Square
formally inventive social satire targeting labor, bureaucracy, and media culture
The Lobster
essayistic structure, bleak humor, and confrontational critique of modern institutions
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Romanian social realism blended with dark comedy and institutional absurdity
Movie Details
- Director
- Radu Jude
- Release Date
- 2023-09-27
- Runtime
- 164 min
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 (130)
Cast
- Ilinca Manolache
- Ovidiu Pîrșan
- Nina Hoss
- Dorina Lazăr
- László Miske
- Uwe Boll
- Șerban Pavlu
- Katia Pascariu
- Nicodim Ungureanu
- Sofia Nicolaescu
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World about?
- An overworked Bucharest production assistant becomes the exhausted guide through a grotesque landscape of corporate safety theater, gig labor, and digital-era absurdity.
- What is Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as labyrinthine.
- Is Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World as mild.
- What did critics think of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World?
- Critics broadly regard Radu Jude's formally audacious dark satire as a complex, urgent, and highly compelling portrait of contemporary work and media culture.
- Which films are like Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World?
- Films with a similar feel include Sorry We Missed You, The Square, The Lobster, and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
- How long is Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World?
- Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World runs 164 minutes.
- Where can I watch Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World?
- In United States, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World streams on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel.
