Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) is a Romanian satirical comedy you can watch online on iFILM — directed by Radu Jude and awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Schoolteacher Emi finds a personal sex tape she made with her husband has leaked online, and the parents of her students are calling for her head.

Jude splits the film into three deliberately jarring chapters. The first follows Emi walking Bucharest's streets in real time — a deadpan documentary drift through a city going about its business. The second drops the narrative entirely for a mock glossary of profanity, taboo imagery and cultural contradictions. The third is the reckoning: a parents' meeting that functions as a show trial. Katia Pascariu plays Emi without sentimentality, holding her ground in the face of spectacular hypocrisy.

The film is an abrasive, funny and precise attack on social conformity — the kind that makes you laugh and then feel slightly implicated. Stream Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) online on iFILM.