Bad Luck Barking Dear Editors, Alan Dean’s review of films by the Romanian director Radu Jude (“Bazin-ga, or RJ: Mysteries of the Organism,” Issue 49) is very perceptive and well researched overall. It gets confused, however, when discussing a scene in Jude’s Bad Luck Banging : There are Godardian flourishes here and there: when Emi visits the school’s director Mrs. Cănuţă, a girlboss figure attempting to walk a careful line between appeasing the parents and defending her star employee, the dialogue slips into nondiegetic chitchat . Freckles, an oddly named man whose presence in Mrs. Cănuţă’s house is never explained, tells Emi an inexplicable story about a dog who held the rank of major in the Securitate — until he mentions being on set, and it becomes clear that it is the actors who are speaking. Maybe? Dean can be forgiven for his unfamiliarity with Romanian Communist-era television.…