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Director Radu Jude s scathing social satire about sex, lies and videotape is set for a release later this year.
Magnolia Pictures has acquired the North American rights to Berlin Golden Bear winner
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn by Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude.
The satire follows a high school teacher struggling with the fallout of her sex tape leaking online. Magnolia plans to release the film later this year.
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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a wildly entertaining and imaginative film with a lot on its mind. Radu Jude has staked his claim as a high priest of cinema, Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles said in a statement. The movie was shot entirely during COVID lockdown last summer, with cast and crew all wearing antiviral masks.
COVID-19 Romania s PM Florin Cîţu announced he asked the
coordinator of the national vaccination programme Valeriu Gheorghiţă and the
health minister Vlad Voiculescu to take steps to initiate the 3rd
vaccination phase sooner than planned, because in March Romania will receive
2.6 million anti-COVID vaccine doses, which is more than originally estimated.
The PM said that where citizens entitled to vaccines in the 1st and
2nd stages of the programme decline getting the jabs, the respective
doses should go to the general public scheduled for immunisation in the 3rd
phase. So far 1.16 million people have received the vaccine in Romania. On the
other hand, more than 830,000 infections have been reported in Romania since
the start of the pandemic, with the death toll standing at nearly 21,000. Face-to-face classes continue for senior-year middle and
high school students, but in a mixed system, with half of the children
attending classes online, under a joint order issued by t
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Director Hong Sang-soo won the Best Screenplay award for his latest film Introduction at this year s Berlin International Film Festival last week.
It marks the second consecutive year Hong has taken home the festival s Silver Bear after winning the Best Director award for his film The Woman Who Ran last year.
Hong Sang-soo (left) and Kim Min-hee More than telling a story, or advancing a narration with efficiency, this script fabricates those momentary intervals between one action and another, where, for an instant, a hidden truth of human life is suddenly revealed, bright and lucid, the jury said in its praise of the film.
2020 Berlin Film Festival goes virtual, gets personal
Angelika Jansen, Correspondent
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Maren Eggert won the top acting prize at the Berlin Film Festival for playing a scientist who falls in love with a robot (Dan Stevens).Christine FenzlShow MoreShow Less
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Natsuko (Fasako Urabe) and Nozomi (Aoba Kawai) are strangers who form a tenuous friendship after meeting by chance in “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy.”Berlin Film FestivalShow MoreShow Less
COVID-19 reduced this year’s Berlin Film Festival, normally attended by hundreds of thousands of film fans, to a virtual event attended only by the jurors, industry members and the press.
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