Overview

• Jude’s film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival on August 10 and unfolds across 14 chapters in a 169-minute anthology format.
• It uses a fictional AI interface called “Dr. AI Judex 0.0” to generate visual effects and narrative prompts in a self-reflexive framing device.
• The film features graphic sexual material, including a dildo-centric folk story and multiple simulated oral sex sequences.
• Drawing on Transylvanian myth and Romanian tourism, its episodic vignettes mount an overt anti-capitalist critique of commodification and labor exploitation.
• Critics commend its audacious experimentation and political edge but fault its chaotic scope and intentionally rough-hewn style as overlong and unfocused.