REVIEWS
"a [...] provocative pandemic polemic […] Jude remains a boldly original voice in modern European cinema, with serious things to say and increasingly adventurous ways of saying them."
The Hollywood Reporter
“ […] this provocative and unapologetically profane Buñuelian prank one of the first examples of a genuine auteur work to emerge in a world upended by COVID-19.”
Variety
“This is certainly the most unrepentantly confrontational work we’ve yet seen from Jude.”
Screendaily
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CZECH CONTRIBUTION
Czech co-producer of the film, Jiří Konečný and his company endorfilm, has collaborated with director Radu Jude and producer Ada Solomon for the third time already. The two previous films were no less successful - Aferim! was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale in 2015, and "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" won the Crystal Globe award at the Karlovy Vary IFF in 2018.
Furthermore, complete visual postproduction of Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn took place at prestigious postproduction house UPP in Prague and Czech actress Petra Nesvačilová appeared in one of the supporting roles in the film.
The Czech Film Fund supported the film last year in the call for minority co-productions with EUR 96 150.
CZECH FILMS AWARDED AT THE BERLINALE IN THE PAST
While the only Czech or Czechoslovak winner of the Golden Bear remains Larks on a String by Jiří Menzel (in 1990), Czech cinema scored notable co-production successes recently. The winner of the 68th Berlinale, Touch Me Not (2018), was made in co-production with Czech company PINK. The year before, Agnieszka Holland received the Silver Bear - Alfred Bauer Prize for Spoor (co-produced by nutprodukce on the Czech side). Danish-Swedish-Czech-German A Royal Affair (co-produced by Sirena Film) appeared in the competition in 2012, French-British-Czech La Vie En Rose, made in co-prodction with OKKO Production, in 2007. In the very same year, also Jiří Menzel competed at the Berlinale with I Served the King of England.
Czech Film Center operates as a division of the Czech Film Fund.
