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- 2021
- Not Rated
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
- 2021
- Not Rated
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
- 2021
- Not Rated
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
- 2021
- Not Rated
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
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6.6
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
74
77% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
18% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
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.
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.
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Amid so many earnest, forgettable COVID-era and COVID-acknowledging movies around the world, here’s one that truly goes for it.
While Jude succeeds at lampooning the chaos of contemporary political discourse, Bad Luck Banging takes on a few too many issues to make a coherent statement on any of them.
Whatever the film’s flaws, this is certainly the most unrepentantly confrontational work we’ve yet seen from Jude - and perhaps from any Romanian director. And, as the beleaguered, improbable figure of scandal at the centre of it all, stage actress Pascariu impresses with a crisply reserved performance.
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.
Production Company
microFILM,
Paul Thiltges Distributions,
Endorfilm,
Kinorama,
Bord Cadre Films,
Sovereign Films (II),
Aqua Carpatica,
ArteKino International,
Covalact,
Hrvatski Audiovizualni Centar (HAVC),
Luxembourg Film Fund,
The Czech Republic State Fund for Support and Development of Cinematography
Release Date Nov 19, 2021
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating Not Rated
Awards
Gopo Awards, Romania
• 3 Wins & 8 Nominations
Pula Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
