Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

A damning mini-essay about Romania’s cultural and political history, it playfully unpacks the conservative attitudes expressed by Emi’s critics.

The film is a contemptuous slap at boredom, at hypocrisy and at everything petty and mean.

...Radu Jude’s flick is one of the more audacious films of 2021.

...a frustratingly brilliant (and brilliantly frustrating) experience that formally doesn’t really have a contemporary cinematic referent, an eyeball-slicing polemic by a bomb-throwing provocateur.

Here, faced with many barriers, a director is experimenting with the film form itself, taking apart all the tools at his disposal and smashing together their raw components to forge something new.

...shocking, brilliant pandemic satire.