NYFF Review: On 'Kontinental '25' and 'Dracula,' a Wicked & Wily Double Feature from Merry Romanian Prankster Radu Jude

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It’s kinda weird that the two movies the New York Film Festival is screening from Romanian director Radu Jude this year are both so succinctly titled. This is after all a man who made his name in adventurous-cinema-lover’s circles over the past decade with movies titled I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians , Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn , and Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World . That his double-feature in 2025 is one movie called Kontinental ‘25 and another one called Dracula — Dracula of all things!—feels, if you know his work, like it’s own kind of trap.

So it’s

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