Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Name: Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: November 19, 2021
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Alexandru Potocean, Andi Vasluianu, Claudia Ieremia, Daniela Ionita Marcu, Ilinca Manolache

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: November 19, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexandru Potocean, Andi Vasluianu, Claudia Ieremia, Daniela Ionita Marcu, Ilinca Manolache, Katia Pascariu, Kristina Cepraga, Nicodim Ungureanu, Olimpia Malai, Tudorel Filimon

Movie Facts:

Golden Bear winner at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival.

Summary: Emi (Katia Pascariu), a schoolteacher, finds her reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is uploaded onto the internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender.

Director: Radu Jude

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 106 min

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Barry Hertz

Nov 23, 2021

There is almost zero chance that this film escapes the festival or art-house circuit to become a mainstream cultural artifact – its sexually explicit material all but guarantees it – but Jude’s work is an almost profound act of high-wire lampoonery that deserves to be seen and debated far and wide. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Mar 7, 2021

One of European cinema’s most unclassifiable auteurs has delivered the bitter pill we deserve. Read full review

Josh Kupecki

Dec 15, 2021

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a frustratingly brilliant (and brilliantly frustrating) experience that formally doesn’t really have a contemporary cinematic referent, an eyeball-slicing polemic by a bomb-throwing provocateur. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Dec 2, 2021

Amid so many earnest, forgettable COVID-era and COVID-acknowledging movies around the world, here’s one that truly goes for it. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Mar 3, 2021

A simple premise can serve as a portal to profound social critique, for those willing to take the plunge. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Nov 12, 2021

It’s a trifle hard to categorize. It has a light-enough tone that you feel it’s aiming for laughs, but those are few and far between. At least the message is clear, no matter how much meandering goes on as it’s being delivered. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Jan 20, 2022

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is provocative and irritating — and intentionally so. That makes it particularly annoying, because even as you’re provoked and irritated, you are also aware that writer-director Radu Jude wanted you to feel that way. Read full review

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zwngarten

Sep 10, 2022

In its second part a collage of interesting observations and ideas, framed by two parts of a female's walk through a day and an unbelievable inquisition, playfully satirized.

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Brent_Marchant

Dec 5, 2021

Wow -- this one is so out there that it's almost impossible to know how to describe it, suffice it to say that this bold, courageous Romanian offering from director Radu Jude covers a lot of ground in less than two hours. Told in three parts and an epilogue, the film follows the saga of aWow -- this one is so out there that it's almost impossible to know how to describe it, suffice it to say that this bold, courageous Romanian offering from director Radu Jude covers a lot of ground in less than two hours. Told in three parts and an epilogue, the film follows the saga of a school teacher who makes an amateur sex tape with her husband that somehow gets leaked to the internet when the couple's computer is in the repair shop, creating a scandal that threatens her job and reputation. She comes under tremendous scrutiny from the school and the parents of its students, forcing her to defend herself amidst a flurry of criticism. But, as much of the film shows, that criticism is rooted in a plethora of hypocritical, prejudicial and ignorant attitudes, issues on which the filmmaker shines an incredibly luminous light, both on Romanian nationals and citizens of the world at large. Regrettably, the impact of the director's satire is a little slow in coming during the film's first two segments, both of which include some odd camera work and diverse styles of storytelling that don't mesh well, prompting viewers to wonder what exactly he's going for here. Thankfully, however, this becomes more than apparent -- in all its brilliance and ugliness -- in the picture's bitingly funny third sequence and utterly hilarious coda. This could thus be characterized as an offering that delivers a little too little a little too late, but what a delivery! Had the entire production been as consistently on target as its concluding segment, this would have been quite an insightful eyeful. But, as it stands, this is more of a valiant last-minute rescue effort that's likely to leave most audience members lamenting "if only...". Sensitive viewers should be aware that this offering contains extremely explicit sexual content and pervasive offensive language, much of it quite laugh-inducing, but certainly nothing that would make for suitable screening at a genteel afternoon garden party. Indeed, who knew that sexuality could be so controversial -- or funny.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Nov 12, 2022

The hilarity of its satirical premise is more than adequate, although its vigor becomes a bit tiresome when the idea stalls until it reaches the point where absurdity becomes present.

There are many ideologies and thematic approaches, but not everything has a sense of being and we do touchThe hilarity of its satirical premise is more than adequate, although its vigor becomes a bit tiresome when the idea stalls until it reaches the point where absurdity becomes present.

There are many ideologies and thematic approaches, but not everything has a sense of being and we do touch a lot on the area of exaggeration, but I think the project makes it very clear from the beginning that its vision is unapologetic and that is appreciated. But how much of an impression does this film leave once it's finished? I'm unable to say, let alone with certainty.
Its critique of such puritanical hypocrisy is not new, but its concept works within the context in which it was filmed and explored. Ultimately, I think its viability will be best served by accepting it merely as a product of its time and situation. And there's nothing wrong with that.… Expand

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