Making a feature film is a notoriously long process. Once the script has been written, productions may spend several years organizing funding before the film is actually shot, and then edited. With specific restrictions changing from week to week, references to the world’s pandemic lifestyle in a film could very well feel outdated by the time the work is completed and distributed. It’s therefore unsurprising that most films selected for the Berlin International Film Festival are set in a universe that’s oblivious to the ongoing pandemic. There are nevertheless a few films that reflect the past year’s social habits. ‘Loony porn’ in times of COVID Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn , a competition entry by Silver Bear-winning Romanian director Radu Jude , fulfills the promises of its title right with its opening scene: a homemade porn video. In the following scene, the woman from the sex tape is at a market. Just like everyone else, she is wearing a mask. As she wanders through the streets of Bucharest in observational documentary-style shots, the face mask is also ubiquitous. Jude hadn’t originally scripted his film that way, though. That introductory sequence was actually shot a few weeks before last year’s… Read full this story
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