Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

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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.


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.)


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.


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


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

 

uter

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great find! in the trailer you can see a explicit doggy-scene in the tablet. courious maybe it´s her?
 

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The sex in the film is real but porn actors were filmed. This was said by the director. Also, according to him, the film should be released in April-May 2021.

Cineuropa: While preparing the film, did you experience any reticence from Romanian film professionals? You hired a porn actor, Ştefan Steel, for the part of the husband, and I wondered whether your first choices for the part refused to be involved in the feature…

Radu Jude: Actors and actresses refusing a part is something that does happen, and I have no issue with that. It’s ok; it’s normal. Anyone can decide what they want or absolutely don’t want to do in a film, and I accept it. We all have our limits, values and opinions, be they political or aesthetic. It only becomes annoying when someone doesn’t admit they have issues with this or that, and then, days into the shoot, they refuse to do what had been discussed very clearly from the beginning. Ştefan Steel was very good and very professional; it was a pleasure working together. The same goes for the actress who doubled for Katia Pascariu. I hope we will work together again.


From another interview

Libertatea: Radu Jude, are you not afraid that "Babardeală u. e. bucluc or porn balamuc" will be accused of obscenity, then it can probably be said that the CNC financed a pornographic film, etc. How do you protect yourself?

Radu Jude: The project was originally subtitled "Essay on Obscenity". And it was the intention to analyze with the tools of cinema (camera and editing) obscenity and see what is behind this concept. Otherwise, there is only one sex scene in the film, short and rather banal (where you can see some of that "comic sexuality" that Milan Kundera says he disliked both puritans and libertines); this scene is no more " pornographic "than similar scenes from films like Patrice Shero's" Intimacy "or Julio Medem's" Lucia and Sex", which ran in Romanian cinemas without problems.

Libertatea: What are your plans to release the film in cinemas in Romania?

Radu Jude: In principle, we would like to release the film in April-May 2021, but it is still unknown whether this will be possible


Excerpt from the film

 

HellThom

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A comment on Recapped says the main actress performs the fellatio in the opening 5 minutes. SO, either they used a double for the penetration shots, or you don't see the face of the actress during the BJ and he assumed it was the main actress, or it's prosthetic anyway.
Whichever it is, I'm in. Oddly, the fact that the actress is not absurdly good-looking makes it more hot because more "real" and believable.
 

Mr Blobby

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This looks promising.
It was a controversial choice. Jude's social satire, about a Romanian school teacher who becomes the subject of a slut-shaming campaign after a sex tape she made with her husband gets posted online, divided critics.
"A U.S. deal could prove tricky as the movie contains several scenes of hard-core sex. Solomon responded to a question about the movie's eroticism, suggesting that depictions of sex should be seen in context, especially given the often lax attitudes towards on-screen violence. "
 

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This looks promising.
It was a controversial choice. Jude's social satire, about a Romanian school teacher who becomes the subject of a slut-shaming campaign after a sex tape she made with her husband gets posted online, divided critics.
"A U.S. deal could prove tricky as the movie contains several scenes of hard-core sex. Solomon responded to a question about the movie's eroticism, suggesting that depictions of sex should be seen in context, especially given the often lax attitudes towards on-screen violence. "
 

mammos

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I thought so too, but you need to have an account there in order to be able to login. I also cannot download as I'm still considered a newbie in there and have restrictions...
 

mammos

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Such a good opportunity wasted. At least they could've used a more realistic dick. The scene had potential since he explicitly touched her a couple of times and was so close to her with his real thing hanging around...
 
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