(Radu Jude, 2025, Romania, 109 minutes) 

When Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) 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 Radu Jude’s latest furious and hysterical moral parable. Jude, known to Film Series audiences for 2024’s hit Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (not to mention 2016 hit Aferim!, last year’s bonkers three-hour Dracula, 2021’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, etc etc), here crafts a film that is equal measures absurdist and social realist. It deals with how we live now, but with a fascination with dinosaurs that rivals that of The Tree of Life. 

In Romanian with English subtitles.