Explicit and absurd, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is the wildest, angriest film of the year
Unless something remarkably upsetting happens over the next five weeks , there won’t be a more furious, confrontational, blood-boiling film this year than. Ignore, if you can, the faux-wacky title: Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s work is not juvenile prurience but intellectual lunacy. It is spitting mad stuff, meaning that it occasionally froths at the mouth.
Divided into three parts, Jude’s film is a wonderfully unhinged experiment in cinematic anger-management. The first section follows Emilia at a distance as she goes about Bucharest running various errands, with Jude capturing generous long takes of city life to document a populace at its breaking point. Everyone is frustrated by the pandemic, sure – the film was shot in the summer of 2020, though conceived before; the result is one of– but it’s more than masks riling up Romania.
Jude stares at the history of Romania like a man facing off against an abyss. But when it inevitably stares back, the filmmaker, and his audience, find a chasm whose darkness is not geopolitically tethered to the Balkans, to Europe, or to any region or culture at all. Its ugliness is all of us, all the time.
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