New Delhi: Romanian writer-director Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn opens with a naughty, kinky pornographic scene. Emi (Katia Pascariu), a school teacher, is having sex with her husband and they are recording the proceedings for a bit of extra thrill.
But somehow the sex tape leaks and is soon making the rounds of giggly WhatsApp groups of her students and their parents. Some download it, purportedly as evidence to beat Emi with. The fact that the sex is consensual, between a husband and wife is irrelevant. There is outrage, and it’s mostly about how could a middle-aged, married woman be so raunchy.
Radu Jude’s film, which uses this porn clip and the subsequent “trial” of Emi in the school’s yard to draw circles around a society’s hypocrisy, won the Golden Bear award for Best Film at the 71st International Film Festival of Berlin on Friday.
The film is split in three parts. In the first, Loony Porn walks with Emi as she visits her school principal,…