Romanian film of woman's struggle with a violent society wins Berlin's Golden Bear
The Romanian director Radu Jude's 'Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn', a sexually explicit dark comedy of the everyday aggression experienced by a female teacher in contemporary Bucharest, won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear award.
FILE PHOTO: Director Radu Jude poses during a photo call to promote the in-competition film "Aferim! "at the 65th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 11, 2015. REUTERS/Stefanie Loos/File photo
BERLIN: The Romanian director Radu Jude's 'Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn', a sexually explicit dark comedy of the everyday aggression experienced by a female teacher in contemporary Bucharest, won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear award.
Judges hailed the film, starring Katia Pascariu as the teacher whose private sex tape is leaked, triggering a witch hunt by parents of the children at her school, as a "lasting artwork" that had an important message to convey about the Zeitgeist.
(Reporting by Thomas Escritt; Editing by Caroline Copley)
