Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Emi, a schoolteacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked onto the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, she refuses to surrender.

Winner of the Golden Bear for best film at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, the new film by Romanian New Wave auteur Radu Jude is an intelligent, satirical triptych. The film was inspired by a newspaper article and the ensuing fierce discussions between Jude with his friends.

Filmography: I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians  (2018), Scarred Hearts (2016), Aferim! (2015), Everybody in Our Family (2014), The Happiest Girl in the World (2009).

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