Following its screening at the 65th BFI London Film Festival, and a strong theatrical run from 26th November last year, Sovereign's unique and brilliantly provocative comedy drama BAD LUCK BANGING or LOONY PORN is now available on premium video on demand and in Virtual Cinemas, and will also be released on VOD from February 21st.
Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, the latest film from Romanian writer/director Radu Jude (The Happiest Girl in the World) is wildly funny, alarmingly explicit, and extremely timely. It stars Katia Pascariu, in an astounding debut feature film performance, as a teacher who finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal, and very explicit, sex tape is leaked onto the Internet.
Shot in Romania in 2020, it incorporates the ongoing pandemic into the storyline, with the cast wearing masks on screen throughout. Featuring an explicit opening sequence that clearly sets out the film’s themes from the start, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a fearless and sometimes outrageous film that is bound to cause a stir.
The film, that also screened at the New York Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival and Cork International Film Festival amongst others, takes brutally effective potshots at 'the way we live now', recalling the experimental brilliance of the notorious 1967 cause celebre I Am Curious Yellow and Alan Arkin's sublimely dark tale of urban angst Little Murders, as well as the freewheeling irreverence of the French New Wave. It is, as Indiewire tantalisingly suggests, "a John Waters-like eruption of grotesque rage and outré wish-fulfillment", that ScreenAnarchy calls "ingenious". Watch the trailer at the link.
