BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (2021)
Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc (original title)
1h 46min | Comedy, Drama | Language: Romanian | Subtitles: English
SYNOPSIS
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.
CAST & CREW
Stars - Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Olimpia Malai
Director/Writer - Radu Jude
Cinematography - Marius Panduru
Music - Jura Ferina, Pavao Miholjevic
Producers - Adrien Chef, Carla Fotea, Ankica Juric Tilic, Jiri Konecny, Diana Paroiu, Andreas Roald, Valentino Rudolf, Ada Solomon, Paul Thiltges, Dan Wechsler, Jamal Zeinal Zade
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
Berlin International Film Festival - 2021
Winner - Golden Bear - Best Film
Pula Film Festival - 2021
Winner - Best Film
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival - 2021
Nominee - Silvestre Award - Best Film
San Sebastián International Film Festival - 2021
Nominee - FIPRESCI Film of the Year & Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Prize
Sydney Film Festival - 2021
Nominee - Sydney Film Prize - Best Film
PRESS QUOTES
"Provocative and unapologetically profane" VARIETY
"One of European cinema's most unclassifiable auteurs has delivered the bitter pill we deserve" INDIEWIRE
"Hilarious and shocking" THE SPOOL
"Riotously bonkers" SIGHT & SOUND
"Wholly inventive" LITTLE WHITE LIES
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Director Radu Jude is a Romanian film director and screenwriter, who graduated from the Media University of Bucharest in 2003. Jude worked as an assistant director on Amen in 2002, directed by Costa-Gavras, and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu in 2005, directed by Cristi Puiu. He went on to direct several award-winning short films, among them The Tube with a Hat in 2006, the most successful Romanian short film ever, winner of Grand prizes at Sundance, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Grimstad, Hamburg, Bilbao, Huesca, Trieste, Montpellier, Cottbus, Aspen, IndieLisboa, Brussels, Mediawave, Kraków, Almería, Valencia, Uppsala and many more. Other shorts were selected by top festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand, San Francisco, Cottbus and Oberhausen, where Radu Jude won the Grand Prix.
Jude’s feature film debut in 2009, The Happiest Girl in the World, won the CICAE Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, the FIRESCI Prize at the Sofia International Film Festival, the Prize for Best Screenplay at the Bucharest International Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Prize at IndieLisboa. The film was selected in the ACID Programme at 2009 Cannes Film Festival. His second film, Everybody in Our Family in 2012, received the Heart of Sarajevo Award and the Bayard d'Or in Namur, among other awards. Radu Jude's acclaimed historical drama Aferim! in 2015 premiered at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where he won the Silver Bear award for Best Director.
