Starting a serious art-house movie with an amateur porn video might seem bold, but for Radu Jude's Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn it was a winning move.
The jury of the 71st Berlinale picked the Romanian drama, in which a schoolteacher is caught up in a scandal after a homemade sex tape with her husband (that video we see at the top) gets posted online, for this year's Golden Bear as the best film of the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival.
Reviews have jumped, so to speak, on the graphic sex in Bad Luck Banging, but Jude's real focus is the obscenity of public discourse.
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