BAD LUCKY BANGING OR LOONY PORN
Winner of the top prize at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, director Radu Jude’s latest is a raunchy, ingenious comedy about the fallout after a schoolteacher’s sex tape goes viral.
Known for a body of work that regularly blends narrative, documentary, and montage filmmaking, Romanian auteur Radu Jude (PFF21’s Best Narrative Feature-winner EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY) has crafted perhaps his most exciting and unclassifiable work yet with this irreverent mashup of satirical sex comedy and acerbic essay film. Divided into three chapters, BAD LUCKY BANGING follows Emi (Katia Pascariu), a Bucharest history teacher whose homemade sex tape finds its way online and onto the screens of her students and their incensed parents. In the first chapter, Jude follows Emi around the city as she attempts to manage the crisis, encountering a series of seemingly banal scenarios that build to a riotous portrait of a furious, pandemic-era society. Next, Jude pauses the narrative, launching into a bleakly humorous (and sometimes just bleak) cinematic essay delineating and defining key terms, from “Zen” to “blowjob.” And in the grand finale, Emi faces an absurd, socially distanced tribunal of sanctimonious parents, whose increasingly shrill calls for her removal reveal much about their own boorishness and hypocrisy. Employing explicit sexuality for far more than shock value, Jude exploits his titillating premise for both gleefully crass humor and eviscerating social commentary.
CAST: Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Olimpia Mălai, Nicodim Ungureanu
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