Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Nu aștepta prea mult de la sfârșitul lumii) seen at the BFI London Film Festival 2023; available on UK digital platforms from 3 June via Sovereign Films “It’s later than you think,” reads a sign attached to a clock with no hands, somewhere in…
Text of Sex and the City: Radu Jude’s banging Bucharest symphony – my introduction to Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), screened 9th December 2021 at the Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford – in which I consider the tripartite film “as a recalcitrant member of the Romanian New Wave, as a sex comedy, as a…
In Radu Jude‘s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc), the titular ‘banging’ and ‘porn’ come front-loaded, if heavily qualified. For the film opens cold in the middle of an amateurish if energetic POV sex tape in the making, as a woman in a pink wig engages in a range…