A new Romanian film possibly with explicit sex. Critics write about hardcore sex. The film was presented at the Berlin Film Festival on March 2, 2021.
Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
	
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					
				
			
			
				
					
						
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It starts with a video that looks like millions of others you can find on the internet: a woman named Emi (Katia Pascariu) wearing a cat-mask while having sex with her husband. But when the (extraordinarily graphic and seemingly unsimulated) video mysteriously surfaces on PornHub, her job as a teacher is suddenly under jeopardy. (The video may shock milder sensibilities, but there’d be no way for Jude to interrogate the pornographic theme without showing us what we’re actually dealing with.)
	
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					
				
			
			
				
					
						
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Divided into three roughly equal parts—each executed in a completely different style—with a sexually explicit prologue and three so-called “possible endings,” Bad Luck Banging is an ever-shapeshifting beast of a film. It opens in medias coitus, with a lengthy excerpt from Emi’s grainy homemade porno. Shot from the POV of her husband, who remains unseen except for when his lower torso and erect penis enter the frame, the tape could easily be mistaken for any number of amateur videos on PornHub. Opening a festival-ready art film this way is no doubt startling, and it is that instant feeling of shock and surprise that Jude interrogates.
	
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					
				
			
			
				
					
						
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Before the movie title, an amateur porn filmed by mobifon is thrown on the screen. A couple has sex with games, a little blowjob, some whip, a little doggy style. In between you can hear an older woman's voice whining through the room door, it's probably about the couple's child. This is not overly pretty to look at, but also not really unusual. Except perhaps as the beginning of a Berlinale competition film
	
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					
				
			
			
				
					
						
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Opening with a very real-looking hardcore sex tape, and climaxing with a deranged orgy featuring super-sized dildos, Romanian writer-director Radu Jude's latest taboo-busting polemical comedy is refreshingly untroubled by tasteful restraint
	
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					
				
			
			
				
					
						
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			Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
 
					
				Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) - IMDb
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn: Directed by Radu Jude. With Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Olimpia Malai, Nicodim Ungureanu. Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her...
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				Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc | Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Berlin International Film Festival - official website
				quotes from reviews
It starts with a video that looks like millions of others you can find on the internet: a woman named Emi (Katia Pascariu) wearing a cat-mask while having sex with her husband. But when the (extraordinarily graphic and seemingly unsimulated) video mysteriously surfaces on PornHub, her job as a teacher is suddenly under jeopardy. (The video may shock milder sensibilities, but there’d be no way for Jude to interrogate the pornographic theme without showing us what we’re actually dealing with.)
 
					
				Berlinale 2021: Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Turns Sex into a Sensational History Sermon
What's worse: porn or genocide?
				 tilt.goombastomp.com
						
					
					tilt.goombastomp.com
				Divided into three roughly equal parts—each executed in a completely different style—with a sexually explicit prologue and three so-called “possible endings,” Bad Luck Banging is an ever-shapeshifting beast of a film. It opens in medias coitus, with a lengthy excerpt from Emi’s grainy homemade porno. Shot from the POV of her husband, who remains unseen except for when his lower torso and erect penis enter the frame, the tape could easily be mistaken for any number of amateur videos on PornHub. Opening a festival-ready art film this way is no doubt startling, and it is that instant feeling of shock and surprise that Jude interrogates.
 
					
				Review: Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Takes Satiric Aim at Romanian Society
After a while, it’s hard not to feel like Radu Jude is simply shooting fish in a barrel.
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				Before the movie title, an amateur porn filmed by mobifon is thrown on the screen. A couple has sex with games, a little blowjob, some whip, a little doggy style. In between you can hear an older woman's voice whining through the room door, it's probably about the couple's child. This is not overly pretty to look at, but also not really unusual. Except perhaps as the beginning of a Berlinale competition film
 
					
				BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc) von Radu Jude (Berlinale 2021, Wettbewerb) | Sennhausers Filmblog
Goldener Bär für den Besten Film 2021 Was für ein Trip! Dieser «Verrückten-Porno» des Rumänen Radu Jude (Vernarbte Herzen) ist - rein formal argumentiert - ein schlampig zusammengeschusterter Unfall, inhaltlich ein Pandemie-Seufzer und ganz sachlich der erste reguläre Maskenfilm in Kinolänge an...
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				Opening with a very real-looking hardcore sex tape, and climaxing with a deranged orgy featuring super-sized dildos, Romanian writer-director Radu Jude's latest taboo-busting polemical comedy is refreshingly untroubled by tasteful restraint
 
					
				 
				 
					
				 
						
					 
					
				