Radu Jude’s provocative satire takes Golden Bear while Maren Eggert wins gala’s inaugural gender-neutral acting award
The provocative Romanian film Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival, capping the truncated 2021 virtual edition of the event.
Directed by Radu Jude, Bad Luck Banging is a satirical parable about a teacher who is put up before a tribunal after a sex tape is illicitly leaked on to the internet. In a three-star review, Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw described it as “a contemptuous slap at boredom, at hypocrisy and at everything petty and mean” and said it is about “our creeping suspicion that standard-issue human unhappiness will survive even when, or if, [Covid] is eradicated”.
The provocative Romanian film Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival, capping the truncated 2021 virtual edition of the event.
Directed by Radu Jude, Bad Luck Banging is a satirical parable about a teacher who is put up before a tribunal after a sex tape is illicitly leaked on to the internet. In a three-star review, Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw described it as “a contemptuous slap at boredom, at hypocrisy and at everything petty and mean” and said it is about “our creeping suspicion that standard-issue human unhappiness will survive even when, or if, [Covid] is eradicated”.
- 3/5/2021
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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