I can’t image New York’s Film Forum includes many warnings on movies. But there it was, at the counter when I purchased my ticket for Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn: “Warning: Contains several scenes with explicit sexual content. But it’s a comedy.”
Film Forum was right about the explicit sexual content, but I wouldn’t call the Romanian movie by Radu Jude a comedy. I didn’t laugh much. I was shocked by the opening sequence, then disgusted by the behavior of my fellow humans in the middle and last sections of the film. This is must-see cinema and I’m grateful there are filmmakers like Jude in the world, uncompromising in their vision and unafraid to take chances.
Up next: The Criterion Channel is streaming five earlier Jude films, including The Exodus of Trains, a Holocaust documentary.