Police, Adjective
- 2009
- Romania
- 1h 54min
- 12A
- Directed by: Corneliu Porumboiu
- Written by: Corneliu Porumboiu
- Cast: Dragoş Bucur
- Language: Romanian
- Website: www.ifcfilms.com/films/…
Deliberately-paced police procedural anti-thriller from Romanian writer-director Corneliu Porumboiu, following undercover cop Cristi (Bucur) as he questions the wisdom of attempting to charge and convict a teenager for dope-smoking. A clever and deceptively simple interrogation into the nature of authoritarianism, language and power in small-town Romania 20 years after the revolution.
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Police, Adjective (Politist, Adjectiv)
22 Sep 2010
(12A) 114min Romanian writer-director Corneliu Porumboiu’s follow-up to 12:08 East of Bucharest is a deliberately paced and deceptively simple police procedural, which unfolds in the dreary streets of the filmmaker’s provincial home town of Vasilu.
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