Police, Adjective
Politist, Adjectif
Romania
2009
115 Min
Color
Romanian
Politist, Adjectif
Synopsis
Cristi is a policeman who refuses to arrest a young man who offers hashish to two of his school mates. “Offering” is punished by the law. Cristi believes that the law will change, he does not want the life of a young man he considers irresponsible to be a burden on his conscience. For his superior the word conscience has a different meaning… —Cannes Film Festival
Director
Corneliu Porumboiu
Corneliu Porumboiu (born September 14, 1975) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. His 2006 feature 12:08 East of Bucharest won him the Camera d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He is the son of well-known football referee Adrian Porumboiu. —Wikipedia
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sunshineandclouds
4Jan10
This just blew my mind. Probably the most original film I've seen in a long long time.
NU
31Dec09
"[...] there is a criterion for deciding whether a film is pornographic or not, and it is based on the calculation of wasted time. [...] Go into a movie theater. If, to go from A to B, the characters take longer than you would like, then the film you are seeing is pornographic." (Umberto Eco - How to Recognize a Porn Movie)
If you are into porn movies check out "Police, Adjective". :)
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Artforum, "A Film With Me In It"
By David Hudson on January 1, 2010
"To endure five twelve-hour days of a Jack Smith conference is to realize that Smith isn't exactly the kind of figure you organize a conference for," writes David Velasco, reporting on LIVE FILM! JACK
"Police, Adjective," New Issues and More
By David Hudson on December 23, 2009
In the new Voice, J Hoberman reviews the film he's placed in the #3 slot on his top ten of 2009 list (and for more on the Voice poll and many, many other lists and awards, see the updated tracker
Corneliu Porumboiu Discusses a Scene from "Police, Adjective"
By Corneliu Porumboiu on December 23, 2009
The scene takes place in the middle of the movie. The main character, Cristi, is returning home after work. Up until here, we’ve seen a day in the life of this police officer who follows a group of kids
The Auteurs Daily: Film Comment (and Updates)
By David Hudson on November 7, 2009
Selections from the November/December 2009 issue of Film Comment have been posted along with a few online exclusives, among them, the full uncut version of Alexander Horwath's interview with Michael
Eccentricities of an American Film Festival: AFI Fest 2009
By Gabe Klinger on November 1, 2009
Above: Philippe Grandrieux’s divisive A Lake, playing at this year's AFI Fest.
What do you call a film festival that has shrunken by nearly a third of its former size, hired a veteran film critic as
The Auteurs Daily: NYFF. Police, Adjective
By David Hudson on September 29, 2009
Updated through 10/15.
"Less is more in the sophomore feature by Cannes Camera d'or winner Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), a filmmaker attentive, like his fellow under-40 countrymen
Cannes 2009: Questionable Observation ("Politist, Adjectiv," Porumboiu)
By Daniel Kasman on May 16, 2009
The emphasis on observation in the recent upsurge Romanian cinemas has, in the films I’ve seen, always been a style and not a commentary. Corneliu Porumboiu’s enthralling Politist, Adjectiv changes
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