Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc

One of the most daring and inventive examples of social satire we've seen in cinema in recent years, Bad Luck Banging or Looney Porn by Radu Jude, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, is one of the first films to incorporate into its plot the dystopia we experienced during the Covid era, almost simultaneously with the outbreak of the pandemic. Emi, a history teacher at a prestigious school in Romania, sees her professional future hanging by a thread when her personal sex tape is leaked online. Having endured a grueling day, during which she has been confronted with countless sexist and racist attitudes as well as the awkward situations that have arisen due to Covid restrictions, Emi is called upon to defend herself before a group of outraged and reactionary parents in a process resembling a monstrous mockery of an Inquisition. Launching a direct assault on the viewer’s every conservative reflex and playing with the sense of the forbidden and the sacrilegious through interpolated episodes – sometimes sarcastic and sometimes outright provocative – that interrupt the main plot, Bad Luck Banging or Looney Porn reserves the most meta touch for its utterly crazy, completely unpredictable open-ended finale.
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Direction: Radu Jude
Script: Radu Jude
Cinematography: Marius Panduru
Editing: Cătălin Cristuțiu
Sound: Dana Bunescu
Music: Jura Ferina, Pavao Miholjevi
Actors: Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Olimpia Mălai, Nicodim Ungureanu
Production: microFILM
Producers: Ada Solomon
Co-production: Paul Thiltges Distributions, endorfilm, Kinorama
Co-producers: Paul Thiltges, Adrien Chef, Jiří Konečný, Ankica Jurić Tilić
Costumes: Ciresica Cuciuc
Production Design: Cristian Niculescu
Executive producer: Carla Fotea
Make Up: Bianca Boeroiu
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Croatia
Production Year: 2021
Duration: 106'
Distribution in Greece: Cinobo
Contact: Heretic
Awards/Distinctions: Golden Bear – Berlin IFF 2021, Best Film – Pula FF 2021, Best Feature Film – East-West: Golden Arch IFA 2021, Best Feature Film, Best Actress, Best Editing – Gopo Awards 2022

Radu Jude

Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. In 2006, he made the short film The Tube with a Hat, winner of more than 50 international awards. Jude’s feature debut The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) was selected for more than 50 international film festivals. Titles such as Aferim!, Scarred Hearts, and Everybody in Our Family followed and won multiple awards. The international premiere of The Dead Nation in Locarno 2017 marked his debut in documentary film. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians won the Crystal Globe for Best Film and Label Europa Cinemas Prize in Karlovy Vary in 2018. Uppercase Print and The Exit of the Trains (co-directed with Adrian Cioflâncă), premiered in Berlinale Forum 2020. His next feature, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, won the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2021. In the summer of 2021, Radu Jude was present in Locarno IFF – Corti d’Autore with the short Caricaturana and in Venice IFF – Out of Competition with the short film Semiotic Plastic. His short The Potemkinists premiered in Directors' Fortnight in 2022 and has traveled in over 20 festivals up to now. In 2023, he won the Special Jury Prize in Locarno with Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. One year later, he returned to the same festival to premiere his two latest films: Eight Postcards From Utopia and Sleep #2.

Filmography

2006 The Tube with a Hat (short)
2009 The Happiest Girl in the World
2012 Everybody in Our Family
2015 Aferim!
2016 Scarred Hearts
2017 The Dead Nation (doc)
2018 I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
2021 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
2023 Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
2024 Eight Postcards from Utopia (doc)
2024 Sleep #2 (doc)