Sex, sexism, aging, celebrity, social class, suicide, churchgoing, anti-Roma bigotry, the emergence of a new geopolitical world order and the now rather tarnished lustre of EU membership: Is nothing sacred in Ivana Mladenović’s “ Sorella di Clausura “? No indeed, this raucous, no-holds-barred Romanian comedy unfolds — make that unravels — in an unmistakably Radu Jude-ian register, right down to the contributions of Jude’s frequent DP Marius Panduru, and actress Katia Pascariu, star of his Golden Bear-winning act of iconoclasm “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”.

But while Mladenović and her co-writers Adrian Schiop and Momir Milosević have a lot to say about the singularly screwed-up state of the world right now, they also conspire with Pascariu to suggest a novel, uniquely undignified way

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