Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn - Reviews

...Radu Jude’s flick is one of the more audacious films of 2021.

The film is a contemptuous slap at boredom, at hypocrisy and at everything petty and mean.

A damning mini-essay about Romania’s cultural and political history, it playfully unpacks the conservative attitudes expressed by Emi’s critics.

To be fair, the film announces its intention to be entirely too much early on...

...a frustratingly brilliant (and brilliantly frustrating) experience that formally doesn’t really have a contemporary cinematic referent, an eyeball-slicing polemic by a bomb-throwing provocateur.

Here, faced with many barriers, a director is experimenting with the film form itself, taking apart all the tools at his disposal and smashing together their raw components to forge something new.

...shocking, brilliant pandemic satire.

This is a movie with an unconventional style that could be off-putting if you're not used to it, or if you're overly concerned that every screen moment reinforce whatever rhetorical points you think the film is making.

...en skruvad särling. En mix av satir och essä, proppfull av roliga infall, nycker och nihilistiskt humor.

En rasande rolig och smart fars...

Främst verkar han vilja dra ner brallorna på sitt hemland, vilket görs med högvarvsintellektuellt temperament. En välgrundad ilska som slutar i ett rasande roligt utbrott.

...en samfundskritisk, filosofisk og kitschet fortælling om … ja, praktisk talt alt.

...regissören Radu Jude kryssar formsäkert mellan politik och tabun...

Vass och vågad dramakomedi med toppar och dal