We follow Angela (Ilinca Manolache), a loose-cannon lightning rod (yes, I know that’s a mixed metaphor and I don’t care) who is an overworked and underslept production assistant through a whirlwind day of gofer work, minding her mother, necking Red Bulls and recording obscene Tiktok videos in the satirical persona of Bobita - a character she bases on celebrity misogynist and accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate.

This is one of the most inventive and entertaining films of the year – with cameos from Nina Hoss and Uwe Boll. But underneath all the high and low-pop-cultural riffs, it is righteously angry too, not just at the way corporate capitalism exploits the people who do all the actual work, but at the distractions we’ve developed as a coping mechanism.

It’s rare that the film which (in the humble BFF International Programmer’s opinion) is the best film of the year also has the best title, but who could possibly not expect as much from a film called Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World?

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