It’s good to know as little as possible about the latest film by Radu Jude, who recently won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, before watching it for the first time. It’s so inventive and surprising narratively and stylistically, and it brings up so many rarely approached themes in Romanian cinema, that a most candid viewer walking - let’s say - accidentally into the movie theatre where the film is screening, would surely feel blown away and transported to some sort of magical reality, equally repulsive and fascinating, easily recognizable and exotic. Synthesizing several registers in the context of which Radu Jude exercised his vision the last few years, "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" belongs to multiple cinematic traditions, and not just because each of its three parts is approached from a different stylistic standpoint, but also because its tone varies, as it mixes burlesque comedy, elements of essay film and realistic drama in similar proportions. It is, at the same time, one of the most feminist - if not the most feminist - film in our cinema of all times, and it is shocking, irreverent, cruel, just as should be the case with any endeavour aimed at mirroring the deeply engrained social misogyny of a society wherein debates on this subject usually reflect positions similar to those of half a century ago. (by Andrei Rus)