• Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

    Directed by Radu Jude
    Romania/Luxembourg/Croatia/Czech Republic/USA | 106 minutes | Awards Buzz – Best International Feature Film

  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

    Directed by Radu Jude
    Romania/Luxembourg/Croatia/Czech Republic/USA | 106 minutes | Awards Buzz – Best International Feature Film

  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

    Directed by Radu Jude
    Romania/Luxembourg/Croatia/Czech Republic/USA | 106 minutes | Awards Buzz – Best International Feature Film

  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

    Directed by Radu Jude
    Romania/Luxembourg/Croatia/Czech Republic/USA | 106 minutes | Awards Buzz – Best International Feature Film

A school teacher’s life flips upside down after her homemade sex tape leaks onto the internet and causes pandemonium among her students’ parents in rascally auteur Radu Jude’s latest biting social comedy of errors.

In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize.

film synopsis

After a private sex tape she made with her husband goes viral, Emi (a brilliantly caustic Katia Pascariu) finds herself in scalding hot water. But even with her role and status as a history teacher at a leading Romanian secondary school in jeopardy, and the parents of her students calling for her head on a platter, Emi refuses to back down. As pandemonium reaches fever pitch, Emi faces a parents’ tribunal in which the line between morality and obscenity begins to smudge in increasingly outrageous and irreverent ways. Sure to raise eyebrows as much as elicit stomach-rippling guffaws, the latest from rascally Romanian auteur Radu Jude (I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians PSIFF 2019) is a howlingly funny social comedy of errors and a biting takedown of the hypocrisy surrounding what society deems obscene. Winner of the top prize at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, Jude’s certifiably bonkers triptych is now Romania’s ballsy submission for the International Oscar®.

film details

Director: Radu Jude
Producers: Ada Solomon
Screenwriter: Radu Jude
Cinematographers: Marius Panduru
Editor: Cătălin Cristuțiu
Music: Jura Ferina, Pavao Miholjevi
Cast: Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Olimpia Mălai, Nicodim Ungureanu
Original Language Title: Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc
Country: Romania/Luxembourg/Croatia/Czech Republic/USA
Language: In Romanian with English subtitles.
Year: 2021
Running Time: 106 minutes
Director Filmography: The Exit of the Trains (2020), Uppercase Print (2020), I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018), Aferim! (2015), The Happiest Girl in the World (2009)
Awards: Golden Bear, Berlin International Film Festival; Golden Arena - Best Film, Pula Film Festival
Primary Company: Magnolia Pictures
Contact Email: dmccarthy@magpictures.com

Film Festival 2022