2 by Radu Jude
BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN
Tuesday, April 23rd at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
The targets are wide, the satire is broad, and every hit
lands and stings in Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s angry, gleefully
graceless Golden Bear winner from the 2021 Berlin Film Festival. Evoking
the unsanitized provocations of the great Dušan Makavejev in his prime, Jude
crafts an invigorating, infuriating film in three movements that grows in both
power and absurdity, centering around the trials of a teacher (Katia
Pascariu) at a prestigious Bucharest school whose life and job are upended
when her husband accidentally uploads their private sex tape to the internet
for all to see. Jude has no compunction about shocking and skewering in his
quest to toy with contemporary society’s religious and political hypocrisy,
connecting conservative puritanical outrage to an entire history of violence. (Romania,
2021, 106 min., color, Romanian with English subtitles, DCP) Please
note: This film contains several scenes with explicit sexual content. No one
under 18 will be admitted.
“Critic’s Pick! Biting, bawdy and brilliant.” –
A.O. Scott, NY Times
Don’t miss Radu Jude’s new
movie Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World here at
the Cinema Arts Centre on Wednesday, May 1 at 7:30pm
