Radu Jude’s ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Wins Golden Bear at Berlinale
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize goes to “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” by Ryusuke HamaguchiBrian Welk | March 5, 2021 @ 7:36 AM
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“Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn,” a modern day satire from Romanian director Radu Jude, won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlinale, or the Berlin International Film Festival.
“Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” tells the story of a school teacher who finds her reputation under threat after her personal sex tape is leaked onto the Internet, with her refusing to give into pressure from parents to step down. The film challenges the ideas of hypocrisy and prejudice in our society. The jury for the festival said it had the “rare and essential quality lasting art work.”
Berlinale s Golden Bear goes to Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Along with Radu Jude s Golden Bear-winning film, find out more about the Silver Bear winners of the Berlin International Film Festival s competition.
Golden Bear for Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Definitely not safe for work: Its opening scene is a homemade sex tape. But for Radu Jude, finding this material more obscene than society s racism, anti-Semitism and nationalism is what s perverse. The Romanian director had won a Silver Bear in 2015 with Aferim ; this film is for those who enjoy transgressive experiments like the jury, who praised the way it captures the pandemic s zeitgeist.
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