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Judges hailed the film, starring Katia Pascariu
as the teacher whose private sex tape is leaked, triggering a
witch hunt by parents of the children at her school, as a
"lasting artwork" that "attacked" the viewer.
"It captures on screen the very content and essence, the mind
and body, the values and raw flesh of our present moment in
time," the jury of this year's online festival said in a
statement.
The film, which opens with a lengthy shot of Pascariu having sex
with a partner in porn style, continues depicting the dozens of
aggressive acts to which she, a woman in the city, is subjected
over the course of a day running errands in Romania's frenetic
capital.
Shot in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the film shows
almost every character wearing a mask, but the viewer is left
with the sense that the poison people inject into their own
environment is as destructive as any virus.
Shopkeepers, taxi drivers and the Romanian orthodox church are
all targets of the film's ire, which culminates in a grotesque
tribunal composed of the middle-class parents of the elite
school where Pascariu teaches. Moral paragons to a fault, they
carefully watch her sex tape before passing judgment.
(Reporting by Thomas Escritt; Editing by Caroline Copley and
Janet Lawrence)
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