Little Poems in Prose — Radu Jude & Andrei Rus [FID Marseille ’26 Review]

Despite crediting the scholar and film critic Andrei Rus as a co-director, the latest and possibly trolliest Radu Jude film is really more of an act of co-curation than of filmmaking: it is 35 minutes of Romanian TikTok videos, drolly titled Little Poems in Prose in homage to fellow filth poet Charles Beaudelaire. Having already made a compilation of seemingly unworthy material in his Harun Farocki-inspired advertisement compilation Eight Postcards From Utopia, and with social media and AI usage being...