Kontinental '25

by Radu Jude

Ion, un cerșetor de pe străzile Clujului, nevoit să evacueze apartamentul de la subsol în care locuia ilegal, se sinucide. Orsolya, executorul judecătoresc care îi prezentase somația cu termenul de evacuare, trece printr-o criză de conștiință. Îmbinând drama cu comedia, scenariul disecă, cu un bisturiu ascuțit, problema accesului la locuire, economia post-socialistă, naționalismul și puterea limbajului de a conserva statutul social.

Kontinental '25 este scenariul filmului omonim, semnat de Radu Jude și premiat cu Ursul de Argint la Berlinale 2025. Volumul include o introducere semnată de autor și o postfață de Andrei Gorzo, care plasează textul în dialog cu Europa '51 al lui Rossellini.

160 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2025

Reviews

[Realini Ionescu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kontinental ’25 written and directed by Radu Jude was The 2025 Winner of Silver Berlin Bear for Best Screenplay, it was also nominated for The Golden Bear for Best Film at The Berlin Film Festival, it is also The 2026 Winner of The Gopo Awards (the local Oscars) for Best Feature Film, Best Actress in a Leading Role, it also won some other trophies – you have thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...


8 out of 10

I have seen and written about I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History as Barbarians https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... although the most important, probably best film of Radu Jude is Aferim! Which won The Silver Bear in Berlin, just like Kontinental

The latter was on Cinemax last night and I still do not know what to think about it: on the one hand, it is clearly an impressive achievement, the proof of that is this musing over the narrative, the excesses, the fact that my behavior also demonstrates the points suggested by the writer – director, who has placed a mirror in front of the audience
Nevertheless, the hyperbole, repetition, and some of the other creative means have been too much for this cinephile, who has to admit to snobbishness, and I am reminded of the shortest joke I know, from Fawlty Towers https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... ‘pretentious? Moi?’

Indeed, Radu Jude mentions remarkable motion pictures, one if the acclaimed Japanese one, in which this hero cleans toilets and keeps a Zen Master attitude, that is the epitome of Nirvana, what I did not like was the amount of swearing, expletives that I dislike, albeit, when I cycle from home downtown and back, I curse all the time, and every working day
The theme of generosity, and its reverse maybe the main one, this homeless commits suicide when he is evicted, and the bailiff feels guilty, although she gives so many euros to various causes, Ukraine refugees, and more…nationalism, extremism are also exposed – the bailiff is attacked and insulted because she is from the Hungarian minority

Reservoir Dogs https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... may have established a record – the movie with the biggest number of swear words, and it is one of the Top 20, except that with Kontinental I find I am not so amenable: shit, fuck, diarrhea, vomit, go beyond a limit…
And yet, this what society looks like, and the bubble I prefer does not represent the world at large, furthermore, the spouse, infuriated with me always, has been using the most awful god damn (to enter the spirit of Kontinental) insults when telling me to shut the fuck up, get the hell out, die already and more to that effect

The bailiff’s mother is chauvinistic as well, and she talks of Romanians as peasants, lazy dogs or something similar, the idea that Cluj looks much more like Vienna, and the West, than Urlati is introduced, and the hyperbole serve to make a point, it is just that for my taste, it did not quite work so well https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...

[Ioana · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Kontinental '25" este o carte atipică, cu o poveste smulsă de pe străzile din Cluj 🎥 Volumul reprezintă scenariul filmului omonim semnat de Radu Jude, peliculă ce a fost recompensată cu Ursul de Argint la Berlinale 2025 🎬
Urmărim îndeaproape o doamnă executor judecătoresc, Orsolya, de origine maghiară, care îl evacuează pe Ion Glanetașu, un cerșetor ce stă ilegal într-o cămăruță ce urmează să fie demolată pentru a se construi un hotel 🏗️ Bărbatul se sinucide în timpul în care ar fi trebuit să își împacheteze lucrurile, stârnind o reacție majoră în sufletul femeii 👀
Mai multe despre povestea minunată, de o sinceritate magnetizantă, am scris într-un articol publicat pe blog ✍️

https://ciobanuldeazi.home.blog/2025/...

[Mihai · Rating 5 out of 5]

Citesc scenariul inainte sa fi vazut filmul. O data in viata ma simt si eu ca membru in comisia CNC.

[Stephie · Rating 1 out of 5]

nothing ever happens ahh jude

[antonia]

revin dupa ce vad filmul

[Maria Crismaru · Rating 5 out of 5]

îi datorez lui Jude parte din motivația mea de a face lucruri și de a fi at this point