Berlinale: Israeli Nadav Lapid wins 2021 Golden Bear
Israeli director Nadav Lapid (here in 2015) won the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlinale with “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”.
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Text by: Sophie Torlotin Follow
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Since this Friday, March 5, we have known the name of the filmmaker who succeeded the Iranian Mohammad Rasoulof: the Israeli director Nadav Lapid for “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”.
The Berlinale, which held its 71st online edition, reduced and without stars due to the pandemic, has indeed ended with a list of awards in due form.
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After five days of showing the films via the internet, the closing ceremony took place via a video on the internet.
The form of the prize list is unprecedented: no ceremony in a festival hall, but a general delegate who faces a screen on which is displayed a mosaic where the members of the jury appear, filmmakers who have all already received a Bear. gold…
It is the Israeli Nadav Lapid, member of the jury, who unveiled the big winner of the Berlinale 2021. It is therefore the Romanian Radu Jude who receives the Golden Bear for
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
, a film well in tune with the times, on a porn video that has gone viral.
Shot during the pandemic, this work by a misanthrope shows all the characters duly masked, and explores the themes of public judgment, intimacy and the hypocrisy of bourgeois circles in the age of social networks.
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I'm your man
, and the Hungarian Lilla Kizlinger, Best Supporting Actor in
Forest
.
Obviously, no glamor or emotion in this price announcement.
But the award-winning filmmakers, the members of the jury, and especially the public will meet next June for the screenings of the award-winning films.
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