Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Panorama

"Golden Bear Winner Is Shocking, Brilliant Pandemic Satire"

INDIE WIRE
  • Archive - Festival 37
  • Director: Radu Jude
  • Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Croatia 2020
  • 106 minutes
  • Romanian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Emi, a schoolteacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked onto the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, she refuses to surrender.

Winner of the Golden Bear for best film at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, the new film by Romanian New Wave auteur Radu Jude is an intelligent, satirical triptych. The film was inspired by a newspaper article and the ensuing fierce discussions between Jude with his friends.

Filmography: I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians  (2018), Scarred Hearts (2016), Aferim! (2015), Everybody in Our Family (2014), The Happiest Girl in the World (2009).

 

An Online Conversation With the Director


  • Director Radu Jude
  • Production Ada Solomon
  • Script Radu Jude
  • Cinematography Marius Panduru
  • Editing Cătălin Cristuțiu
  • Music Jura Ferina, Pavao Miholjević
  • Festivals Berlin )Golden Berlin Bear), Moscow
  • Actors Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Olimpia Mălai, Nicodim Ungureanu, Alexandru Potocean
  • Source Lev Cinemas Ltd.