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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

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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.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Steve Morrissey

Romanian director Radu Jude is best known for his superb, politically engaged historical dramas Aferim! and I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, but he also proves a dab hand at satire with this acerbic comedy drama. The film follows Emilia (Katia Pascariu), a teacher at a smart school whose sex tape with her husband accidentally ends up online. The story is told in three chapters, with parts one and three detailing Emilia's (very explicit) sexploits, plus the ongoing culture war on the streets of Bucharest and, eventually, a showdown over the tape with school management and concerned parents. Sandwiched in-between is an extended flicker-book montage of archive and smartphone footage documenting how all aspects of life in pre-1989 Romania were co-opted by the Ceausescu regime. Drawing parallels between the era of Communism and that of social media, the film is a slightly wordy but vastly entertaining provocation that suggests that a new era of totalitarianism beckons, if we're not careful.

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Cast

rolenameEmilia CilibiuKatia PascariuHeadmistressClaudia IeremiaMrs LuciaOlimpia MalaiLt GheorghescuNicodim UngureanuMarius BuzdrugoviciAlexandru Potocean

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rolenameDirectorRadu Jude

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Theatrical distributor

Sovereign

Released on

2021-11-26

Languages

English | Czech | Russian | French | Romanian

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