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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Romanian	Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc
Directed by	Radu Jude
Screenplay by	Radu Jude
Produced by	Ada Solomon
Starring	Katia Pascariu Claudia Ieremia Olimpia Mălai
Edited by	Cătălin Cristuțiu
Music by	Jura Ferina, Pavao Miholjević
Production company	microFILM
Release date	March 2, 2021 (2021-03-02) (Berlinale)
Running time	106 minutes
Country
Languages	Romanian, English
Budget	€ 930,000

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Romanian: Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc) is a Romanian comedy and drama film written and directed by Radu Jude, and produced by Ada Solomon. It stars Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia and Olimpia Mălai.

The film had its worldwide premiere at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival in March 2021 and won the Golden Bear in the main competition section. It is the third Romanian film to win the Golden Bear in the last nine years.

Plot

Part II: Short dictionary of anecdotes, signs and wonders

Brechtian in nature and objectives, the second part of Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a 26-minute encyclopedia of 70 seemingly haphazardly selected, but alphabetically organized, terms, ideas and events ("anecdotes, signs and wonders"), particularly such pertaining to Romanian history and contemporary Romanian politics. All of them In the opinion of film critic Martin Tsai, Jude's technique here resembles the use of title cards by Gaspar Noé in his 1998 art film I Stand Alone, and challenges dictionary definitions and the status quo alike. Seemingly unconnected, many of these ideas and events – both implicitly and explicitly – are called upon (and even come to the fore) in the film's third part.

Term in English	Term in Romanian	Textual definition	Visual definition	Further explanation (where necessary)
23 August	23 August	"As Romania ended its alliance with Nazi Germany to join the Allies on August 23rd 1944, a newspaper prepared two issues. The headline of one read 'Long live Stalin!,' and of the other one, 'Long live Hitler!'"	Archival footage of the 1981 annual grand military parade, performed in the presence of the General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and the country's de facto President, Nicolae Ceaușescu, during the 37th celebration of Romania's Liberation Day.	On 23 November 1940, Romania – then a national-legionary state under the leadership of General Ion Antonescu – became the second country to join the Tripartite Pact between Germany, Italy, and Japan (just three days after Hungary). Four years later, on 23 August 1944, King Michael I of Romania – alongside politicians from allied opposition parties – led a successful coup d'état against Conducător Antonescu and his fascist government. The events of 23 August 1944 were held in high regard during the socialist era, with the 1952 Constitution of Romania referring to those events as the "Liberation of Romania by the Glorious Soviet Army." Ironically, on the very same day five years before (23 August 1939), the Soviet Union had signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany which, among other things, contained a protocol dividing Romania into designated Soviet and German spheres of influence. In a final twist of events, in 2008, the European Union declared 23 August, the day of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, or Black Ribbon Day for short. Being a member of the European Union, Romania officially observes Black Ribbon Day as a national holiday ever since 2011. Even so, Liberation Day is still commemorated in its original form among parts of the civilian population, further deepening the duality pointed out in Jude's example.
Aborigines	Aborigeni	"Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize."	Three photographs of white men, most probably Westerners, standing next to half-naked or naked Aboriginal women. In two of the photographs, the men are touching the women's breasts or genitalia in an inappropriate manner, while smiling.	Possibly as an intertextual homage, the textual definition is taken from Ambrose Bierce's 1911 satirical work, The Devil's Dictionary, a lexicon consisting of common words followed by humorous and satirical explanations – pretty much like Jude's here. The quote itself refers to the way British settlers treated Aboriginal Australians during the bloody colonization of the continent, which encompassed numerous massacres and culminated in the Australian frontier wars, the outcome of which was the creation of a new dominant society on the continent.
Truth	Adevăr	"truth itself stepped among mankind, right into the metaphor-flurry"	Several horses and a flock of sheep walking across a dry grassy field in front of a modern, but seemingly isolated, apartment block somewhere in Romania.	Omitting only the first verse ("A roar: it is"), the quotation is actually a 1965 short poem by Romanian-born German-language poet Paul Celan, republished two years later in Breathturns (here, as translated into English by Pierre Joris; in the original German, with the first verse included: Ein Dröhnen: es ist/ die Wahrheit selbst/ unter die Menschen/getreten,/mitten ins Metapherngestober). According to noted Celan scholar and publisher of his heritage, Barbara Wiedemann, the poem may be alluding to the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials and to an aphorism by Blaise Pascal, as quoted by Russian philosopher of despair, Lev Shestov: Ce n’est point ici le pays de la vérité: elle erre inconnue parmi les hommes ("Here is not the country of truth: she wanders, unknown, among mankind").
Military	Armata	"The Romanian Military was one of the means of repression against civilians: in the 1848 Revolution, the 1907 Peasants' Revolt, ethnic and political persecution after World War I, the extermination of Roma and Jews during World War II, and the shooting of the first revolutionaries in 1989."	A procession of tanks rolling down a city street, with people (mostly children) standing and waving Romanian flags and showing their support.	Even though the Romanian Land Forces were founded on 24 November 1859, the first attempt to create an independent Romanian Army can be traced back to the Wallachian Revolution of 1848. The Revolution itself, however, was primarily repressed by a common intervention of Ottoman and Russian armies. The Great Romanian Peasant Revolt of 1907 took place between 21 February and 5 April 1907. It caused the downfall of Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino's conservative government, after which the Liberals of Dimitrie Sturdza assumed power. On March 18, they declared a state of emergency and ordered a general mobilization, which led to the recruitment of 140,000 soldiers. During the following week, the Romanian Army killed and arrested tens of thousands of Romanian peasants, violently crushing the revolt in the face of ongoing protests from numerous intellectuals; only 10 members of the Army died in the process. Finally, under orders from Nicolae Ceaușescu, the Romanian Army tried establishing order on the streets during the Romanian Revolution and killed hundreds of civilians before siding with the rioters at the end of December 1989. For more on the Army's role in the extermination of Roma and Jews, see below, under Christmas.
Blonde jokes	Bancuri cu blonde	"E.g.: A nudist blonde is surprised by a bull. After a while, she grows tired and says: ‘I'd rather have a calf than a heart attack.’"	A burlesque reconstruction of the joke.	/
Money	Bani	/	A young man wearing a mask throws out money at a dutiful female cashier at a Romanian retail store. He yells: "Money, bitch!"	/
Library	Bibliotecă	"Out of the libraries Emerge the butchers"	A shot of an in-house bookshelf.	The verses are taken from Bertolt Brecht's poem "1940", as translated into English by Sammy K. McLean.
The Romanian Orthodox Church	Biserica Ortodoxă Română	"Close to all dictatorships, the Church is one of the most trusted institutions. In 1989, when revolutionaries sought shelter from Army bullets, the Cathedral kept its doors closed."	A shot of the controversial, under-construction National Cathedral in Bucharest (as of 2021, the tallest Orthodox church building in the world), followed by a home movie depicting a choir of standing nuns singing the following verses to an elderly archbishop (seated next to a younger, kneeling bishop): "O Holy Fascist Youth,/ Hearts of steel, souls like lilies,/ Unstoppable spring rush,/ Eyes like Carpathian lakes. // Our arms fiercely raise ever higher/ Cornerstones for eternal altars,/ Made of stone, sea and fire/ And the blood of our Dacian ancestors."	Romania is the most religious country in Europe, with the majority of the country's citizens (85.9% according to the 2011 census) belonging to the Romanian Orthodox Church. Consequently, the Church has a special position in contemporary Romanian society, despite its rather checkered past. For example, the Church's first two patriarchs, Miron (1925-1939) and Nicodim (1939-1948), were noted antisemites and supporters of the Iron Guard and, following two decades of anti-religious campaigning by the Communist Party of Romania (1945-1965), there followed many years of well-documented collaboration of Romanian clergy with the communist régime. Today, the People's Salvation Cathedral (whose construction began in 2010) is facing the same courtyard as the Romanian Parliament Building in Bucharest (see next entry).
House of the People	Casa Poporului	Diegetic, in the form of a story told, in broken English, by a tourist guide to a group of Asian tourists: "20,000 people worked on this splendid building, the Ceaușescu palace. It was like slavery work, like in the Pyramids or the Great Wall. They worked for 7 years in 3 shifts, in any weather. There is no official data on the number of deaths or casualties on the construction site. Head architect Anca Petrescu herself witnessed an accident. A young woman lost her balance on a very long ladder and she fell and she died – instantly."	A female tourist guide, presumably Romanian, standing in front of the House of the People in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, relays a story of the palace's construction to a group of Asian tourists. As the guide is telling the story, some of the tourists are reacting to it with compassion, others are photographing the surroundings, and one - a girl in the foreground - is making a panoramic selfie, using a selfie stick.	Ordered by Nicolae Ceaușescu, designed by chief architect Anca Petrescu, and constructed over a period of 13 years (1984-97), the House of the People is the world's heaviest building as well as the second-largest civilian administrative building after the Pentagon. It currently serves as the seat of the Parliament of Romania and is officially referred to as the Palace of the Parliament.
Ceaușescu	Ceaușescu	"Dictator of Romania since 1965, executed in the 1989 Revolution."	An outtake of Nicolae Ceausescu's last New Year's Eve speech (1988).	/
Cinema	Cinema	"We have learned in school the story of the Gorgon Medusa whose face was so horrible that the sheer sight of it turned man and beasts into stone. When Athena instigated Perseus to slay the monster, she warned him never to look at its face, but only at its mirror reflection in the polished shield. Following her advice Perseus cut off Medusa's head. The moral is that we do not, and cannot, see actual horrors because they paralyze us with blinding fear; and that we shall know what they look like only by watching images which reproduce their appearance. The cinema screen is Athena's polished shield."	Snow falling down on a tree branch. People waiting for the green semaphore light to pass the street. Cars moving on a slippery snowy road in winter.	Slightly truncated, the quotation is taken from Siegfried Kracauer's Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality, which argues - among other things - that realism is the most important function of cinema.
Competition	Competiție	"On a visit to England, the Shah of Persia is supposed to have declined the pleasure of attending a race meeting, saying that he knew very well that one horse runs faster than another."	The Horse in Motion (1878) by Eadweard Muybridge, the first example of chronophotography, sometimes called the first motion picture as well.	The quote comes from the third part of Johan Huizinga's seminal work, Homo ludens (titled "Play and contest as civilizaing functions"), where the example it relays is used to show that "the outcome of a game or a contest – except, of course, one played for pecuniary profit – is only interesting to those who enter into it as players or spectators [...] and accept its rules."
Children	Copii	"Political prisoners of their parents."	A choir of children singing and marching to a Romanian military anthem, which includes the verse: "...and let us go to war, children!"	According to Berlin-based journalist Elizabeth Grenier, writing for Deutsche Welle, the definition of children as political prisoners of their parents is a Jean-Paul Sartre quote and can serve as "the catchline for the third part of the film, where the history teacher faces her class's bigoted parents in a mock trial."
Kitchen	Cratiţă	"As in: 'Women belong in the kitchen.'"	cell	cell
Christmas	Crăciun	"The Einsatzkommando IIB, located in Simferopol, Russia, is ordered to kill 3.000 Jews and Roma before Christmas. The order is executed with great speed, to allow the troops to celebrate Christ's birth."	cell	cell
Culture	Cultură	"A citizen: 'Shame on you! You call this culture? No wonder the education system is a mess. Out of taxpayers' money?! Degenerates!'"	cell	cell
Luxury	Dichis	"'Is this natural? I hope you don't sell fakes.' 'Natural, of course. Arctic fox.'"	cell	cell
Teeth	Dinții	"A Romanian worker in Italy extracted two of his own teeth as he couldn't afford the dentist and died of blood poisoning."	cell	cell
Social distancing	Distanţă socială	"During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: 1,5 metres."	cell	cell
Efficiency	Eficienţă	cell	Funeral home next to and emergency hospital.	cell
Eminescu	Eminescu	"Our national poet, the unmatched poet, our Morning Star, the complete man of Romanian culture, the last great Romantic, our better conscience, the absolute Romanian, a lyrical summation of voivodes."	cell	cell
Family	Familie	"6 in 10 Romanian children are subject to family violence."	cell	cell
Page 5 Girl	Fata de la pagina 5	"A popular daily used to publish photos with this title."	cell	cell
Fiction	Ficţiune	"I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction."	cell	cell
Folklore	Folclor	"'Testimonies of a people's imbecility' is how Caragiale defined folklore.	cell	cell
Tastes	Gust	/	cell	cell
Global warming	Încălzire globală	/	Two images are juxtaposed. “Look at that! It's coming from Păuleasca! Waves!”	cell
Unconscious	Inconştient	"Psychoanalysis in Germany. An elderly gentleman cannot move his right arm. No physical infirmity shows in the tests. The therapy is going nowhere. Confused, the psychoanalyst has a great idea. He cries out "Heil Hitler!" The man's right arm shoots out in a perfect Nazi salute.	cell	cell
Intellectual	Intelectual	/	"Illiterate bitch, let intellectuals speak! Take notes! "	cell
Intimacy	Intimitate	“The Neuralink company will test a mind-reading brain implant on humans.”	cell	cell
History	Istorie	"History and life, unlike novels and stories, do not teach a lesson of superficial joie de vivre, even to the happily constituted spirit and senses. The contemplation of history is more likely to inspire, if not contempt for humanity, then a sombre vision of the world."	cell	cell
Jesus	Isus	"Jesus was not merely the son of God, he also came from a good family – on his mother's side," said Monsignor de Quelen.	cell	cell
Love	Iubire	"’I find it ridiculous for an intelligent man to suffer for such a woman, who, apart from being uninteresting, is reportedly quite stupid,’ she added, with the wisdom of those not in love, who think intelligent men should only suffer for women worth their while. It is like being surprised you suffer from cholera, though its bacterium is so tiny.”	cell	cell
Justification	Justificare	cell	"Pig was given to us for food. Everything has a God-given purpose. And pig is meant for us to eat. You understand, dear?" "Yes."	cell
Mathematics	Matematică	"Mathematics is the consequence of what there would be if there could be anything at all."	cell	cell
Metaphor	Metaforă	/	cell	cell
Montage	Montaj	/	cell	cell
Blowjob	Muie	"Most looked-up word in the Online Dictionary. The second is 'empathy.'"	cell	cell
Nature	Natură	Alexandre Blok, journal entry, April 15 1912: "Yesterday, I took great joy in the wreck of the Titanic: so, there is still an Ocean."	cell	cell
Footnote	Notă de subsol	"A splendid idea: a woman's true beauty lies in her man."	cell	cell
City	Oraș	"The artist seeks eternal truth, ignoring the eternity around him. He admires a Babylonian temple column and scorns the factory chimney. How are their lines any different? When the era of coal-powered industry is over, we will admire the remnants of chimneys as today we admire the remains of temple columns. // To walk out your front door as if you've just arrived from far away; to discover the world in which you already live; to begin the day as if you've just gotten off the boat from Singapore and have never seen your own doormat."	cell	cell
Patriotism	Patriotism	“A lady, fined in Vienna for beating her poor Gypsy maid, immediately upon returning to Romania, saluted her homeland by applying two slaps to poor Oprica, saying: ‘O country of freedom, where I can beat people when I so wish!’”	cell	cell
Penguin	Pinguinul	cell	Penguin singing	cell
Cunt	Pizdă	"A synecdoche, in expressions such as: 'stupid cunt.'"	cell	cell
Political	Politic	"H. Broch states political indifference is closely related to moral decay, in that people who are politically innocent are morally suspect, and that the Germans never felt responsible for Hitler's coming to power, because they saw themselves as apolitical."	cell	cell
Pornography	Pornografie	"Parrhasios is considered the creator of pornographia, around 410 BC. Literally, pornographia means ‘portrait of a prostitute.’ Parrhasios was in love with a prostitute, Theodotea, and painted her naked."	cell	cell
Close-up	Prim plan	“When Pasolini made The Gospel According to St. Matthew, he declared that for the roles of priests and Pharisees, he picked ‘slow-witted, Fascist-like faces.’ They were actually members of the Communist Party or labour unions.”	cell	cell
Gaze	Privire	/	cell	cell
Cock	Pulă	"We have embodied the historical structures of the masculine order in the form of unconscious schemes of perception and appreciation."	cell	cell
Fist	Pumn	"If our Lord had possessed a couple of fists like yours, He would never have died on the cross."	cell	cell
Power	Putere	/	cell	cell
Racism	Rasism	"A bus driver, formerly a policeman, refuses taking a Roma woman because of her ethnicity."	cell	cell
War	Război	/	War magazine	cell
Realism	Realism	"Isaac Babel imagined an International of Good Men."	cell	cell
Respect	Respect	“A Chief of Police has stated that women beaten by their husbands shouldn't call the police at night, but wait until morning.”	cell	cell
French Revolution	Revoluția Franceză	/	cell	cell
Romanian Revolution	Revoluția Română	/	cell	cell
Robot	Robot	“An officer who fought in the Middle East is concerned that robotic warfare will remove human empathy from armed conflict.”	cell	cell
Ruin	Ruină	“A good building always makes a beautiful ruin.”	cell	cell
Salary	Salariu	cell	"Either you go home at 4:10 without your salaries, or you wait until 6 ......"	cell
Change	Schimbare	"An American accused of killing his two flatmates told the police he had shared their Neo-Nazi views before converting to Islam. Then he killed them for disrespecting his faith."	cell	cell
Selfie	Selfie	/	cell	cell
Feeling	Sentiment	“Why this certainty that the heart is ethically superior to the brain? Are not vile acts committed as often with the heart's help as without it? Will we ever be done with this imbecile sentimental Inquisition, the heart's Reign of Terror?”	cell	cell
School play	Serbare	cell	“Lord, hear my prayer! I bow to you! Give me strength, I will now come to You.”	cell
Sidewalk	Trotuar	“The pedestrians' sidewalk goes along the roadway. Thus, city dwellers constantly have before their eyes the picture of their competitor, overtaking them in a car. Sidewalks were created in the interest of those with carriages or horses.”	cell	cell
Vanity	Vanitate	“Someone published a 1.500-page book: his correspondence with Einstein and Pope Pius XII. It only contains his letters to the two, since neither ever wrote back.”	cell	cell
Video conferencing	Video chat	/	cell	cell
Future	Viitor	“99% of all the species that ever lived are now extinct.”	cell	cell
Rape	Viol	"55% of responders say rape is justified in certain situations, such as under the influence of alcohol or drugs, if the victim dresses provocatively, or if they agreed to come to someone's home."	cell	cell
Sale and purchase	Vînzare-cumpărare	"The man who buys and sells reveals something about himself more direct and less composed than the man who discourses and battles."	Christ is risen from the dead...	cell
Zen	Zen	"A true poet must be at the same time tragical and comical; human life must be seen as both tragedy and comedy."	cell	cell

Cast

The cast include:

• Katia Pascariu as Emi
• Claudia Ieremia as The Principal
• Olimpia Malai as Mrs. Lucia
• Nicodim Ungureanu as Mr. Gheorghescu
• Alexandru Potocean
• Andi Vasluianu as Mr. Otopeanu

Release

On February 11, 2021, Berlinale announced that the film would have its worldwide premiere at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival in the Berlinale Competition section, in March 2021.

Reception

In the statement of the jury of the 71st Berlinale – composed of six previous winners of the Golden Bear (Ildikó Enyedi (Hungary), Nadav Lapid (Israel), Adina Pintilie (Romania), Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran), Gianfranco Rosi (Italy) and Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)) – Bad Luck Banging, or Loony Porn was judged to be "an elaborated film, as well as a wild one, clever and childish, geometrical and vibrant, imprecise in the best way [...one that] attacks the spectator, evokes disagreement, but leaves no one with a safety distance." The jury also commended the film's ability to simultaneously capture on screen "the values and the raw flesh of our present moment in time" and provoke them, by slapping it, by challenging it to a duel. And while doing that, it also challenges this present moment in cinema, shaking, with the same camera movement, our social and our cinematic conventions.

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes surveyed 18 critics and, categorizing the reviews as positive or negative, assessed 18 as positive and 0 as negative for a 100% rating. Among the reviews, it determined an average rating of 7.5 out of 10.

External links

• Виктор Јованоски/sandbox at IMDb
• Виктор Јованоски/sandbox at Rotten Tomatoes

Category:2021 comedy-drama films Category:2021 films Category:Romanian films Category:Romanian comedy-drama films Category:Romanian-language films Category:Films shot in Romania Category:Golden Bear winners