2021 ‘Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc’ Directed by Radu Jude
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 took more than 100 years, but someone finally figured out the perfect way to end a movie.
Girl just wanted to have sex with her man and I just wanted to have a better movie
I'm always looking for movies that acknowledge that our world is broken, possibly irreparably. Few movies do that, but this one does.
Radu Jude’s latest is a playful yet biting piece of social satire. It’s a film that grapples with the mess of hypocrisies and contradictory morals of contemporary culture, with Jude exploring this in a wonderfully absurd but incredibly thoughtful manner. It’s definitely a strange endeavor with all of its many meta, unhinged moments but it’s undoubtedly unlike anything out there. Plus, that ending might take the crown for the best and most bonkers ending of the entire year. Just, wow.
To open your film with an unsimulated sex scene is incredibly bold and insane. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn recently won the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival. I’m not entirely familiar with this director’s work nor the Romanian New Wave movement. This was a wild ride to uncover. The first part of the film is about a teacher who is caught up with a sex tape scandal. We follow her through the streets of Bucharest, Romania. The cinematography is free-formed and relaxed. The direction in the first section is entirely following the main character as she slowly looses her mind. I can compare the first section like the film Two Days, One Night. Did I…
“A good building makes a beautiful ruin.”
So funny, and soooooo depressing. Phew.
Incredible. Also: A smart director could tweak this into the most devastating Americanization ever.
Miguel Gomes goes to Romania in all the worst ways. I like most of Jude movies I've seen and I wish he had an arthouse breakthrough with something more interesting than this condecending conceptual comedy, The provocations are shallow and the whole thing feels half formed and smug even if a few of the jokes do land.
I feel like the director was obsessed with wanting to show hardcore porn in a theatrical release so he filmed 100 minutes of incomprehensible, pretentious SHIT and slapped it on to 2 minute sex scene, gave the convoluted mess a catchy title and called it a day.
Well it fucking worked because the title was the only reason I saw it.
2.5 stars for the opening scene that makes Nocturnal Animals look like a children's film. 2.5 more stars for the funny ending. Negative 4.5 stars for that regurgitated donkey shit that took place for the other 95 minutes of the movie.
Start it off with some hardcore porn, end it with a funny gag and it'll trick you into thinking you actually liked the movie.
Review by Eric Kohn
The brilliance of “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn,” Romanian director Radu Jude’s astonishing Berlinale Golden Bear-winning satire, comes from a most unusual combination by jamming together two very different kind of movies that shouldn’t work in harmony, but end up making perfect sense. The filmmaker’s bold approach suggests what might happen if someone spliced a late-period Jean-Luc Godard essay film into the middle of “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” with such mesmerizing results that you just have to roll with it. One of European cinema’s most unclassifiable auteurs has delivered the bitter pill we deserve.
