BERLIN (Reuters) - The Romanian director Radu Jude's 'Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn', a sexually explicit dark comedy of the everyday aggression expe.
Radu Jude’s ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Wins Golden Bear at Berlinale
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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.”
Updated Mar 5, 2021, 9:48 pm IST
Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn , won the Golden Bear award for Best Film at the 71st International Film Festival of Berlin
Radu Jude’s film - Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn opens with a naughty, kinky pornographic scene. Emi (Katia Pascariu), a school teacher, is having sex with her husband and they are recording the proceedings for a bit of extra thrill.
But somehow the sex tape leaks and is soon making the rounds of giggly WhatsApp groups of her students and their parents. Some download it, purportedly as evidence to beat Emi with. The fact that the sex is consensual, between a husband and wife is irrelevant. There is outrage, and it s mostly about how could a middle-aged, married woman be so raunchy.
Berlinale s Golden Bear goes to Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
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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.