It goes to porumboius greatest credit that a matter so grave can be such a thrill. In illuminating these values, it succeeds completely. Police, adjective is laden with import, semiotic weight. English subtitles a film by corneliu porumboiu confirming that the. Later, policier came to describe a novel, film, or television program dealing with the solving of crimes. Police, adjective corneliu porumboiu by andrew sarris. Vlad ivanov who costarred in police, adjective and won acclaim for his role as the fearsome abortionist in 4 months stars as cristi, a bucharest policeman who we first see arriving. Aug 22, 20 police, adjective is a heartbreaking and ultimately very bleak film but not without flashes of warmth and humor.
Composed of long, uninterrupted takes with a minimum of dialogue, the structure is about as accurate a depiction of police procedure as is possible in the. Police, adjective, from romania, is a case in point. Over time, cristi begins to question the ethical ramifications of his task. It takes risks by challenging viewers to look away from the screen or walk away for a few secondsor several. Dec 23, 2009 police, adjective tells a small story well. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost.
What would be 3 good adjectives for the policemen in this. The young cop must be taught a lesson and look up in the dictionary the words for law, police, and even ironically police state etc. Nov 20, 2009 the newest triumph from the burgeoning national cinema of romania police, adjective is a wry comedy about crime, conscience and the beauty of language from the director of 1. Jiggers, its the dictionary a plot that turns on words.
One of the most criticallyacclaimed films of the year and a double prize winner at cannes, police, adjective is the new whipsmart, dryly funny comedy from corneliu porumboiu 12. Corneliu porumboiu, the director of the rashomonlike 12. Corneliu porumboius lofi police procedural, police, adjective, doesnt end with a bad guy getting his dueit ends with a drawnout discussion about the meaning of words like law and conscience. Jan 22, 2010 certain movies provoke critics to plead with an audience to be patient.
Certain movies provoke critics to plead with an audience to be patient. The romanian film police, adjective won the jury prize at last years cannes international film festival, and is also romanias entry for a foreign language oscar this year. Nov 20, 2012 the crime genre seduced me because, every time around, it involves you, the viewer. May 26, 2019 corneliu porumboiu returned to cannes ten years after 2009s police, adjective with the whistlers, one of the freshest genre hybrids in a festival full of them. Thats not to be exclusionary, condescending, condemnatory. Dec 22, 2009 police, adjective is a peculiar title for a film. The whistlers director corneliu porumboiu on creating an. Released december 23rd, 2008, police, adjective stars dragos bucur, vlad ivanov, irina saulescu, ion stoica the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 50 min, and received a score of 81 out of 100.
The posters at cannes 2009 read politist, adjective. The theme of the movie is really not about drugs, but about morality, the nature of authoritarian power, the tedium of everyday life, and romanian politics. If you see police brutality or an individual committing a crime, you should be able to film that. Jan 01, 2010 film criticism requires one to be objective about a subjective experience. The award for most ungainly title for a current movie goes to the new romanian film police, adjective, written and directed by corneliu porumboiu. That shopworn phrase by the book takes on a doggedly literal meaning in police, adjective. I watched this at a silent film fest with live music to accompany it. Police, adjective 2008 stream and watch online moviefone. A film like police, adjective cuts out a lot of the traditional entertainment of. Police, adjective has to be one of the harder sells in recent distribution history.
This film is not currently playing on mubi but 30 other great films are. A romanian cop reluctantly tails a teen suspected of selling marijuana. The film is romanias official entry to the 2009 academy awards. Yet it is an exciting scene, because it lays out in stark, unambiguous terms the inflexible words bucur has been bucking against so determinedly. Thursday, may 5, 2014 2009 police, adjective in romanian with english subtitles drama this movie is only intentioned for movie critics or movie lovers whove watch way to many. Porumboius 2009 film police, adjective in which ivanov plays captain anghelache is another one of the actors memorable roles and i am also partial to his performance in the 2018. The crime genre seduced me because, every time around, it involves you, the viewer. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free.
The usual emphasis in a detective film is upended so that procedure, thrillingly, is more important than action. Sep 30, 2010 police, adjective 3 5 stars 3 out of 5 stars. The two meanings of policy apparently come from different sources. The story centers on cristi vlad ivanov, the captain in porumboius acclaimed 2009 drama police, adjective, a worldweary bucharest police detective who may have succumbed to the temptation of a big score. Extreme minimalism, thoroughly fixed longtake, miraculous mixture of sheer reality and. Watch police, adjective english subtitled prime video. The movie focuses on policeman cristi, who is investigating a teenage boy who has been smoking hashish. Lets say we find him in 10 years, completely different and in a completely different world. He has absolutely no time for cristis crisis of conscience, but isnt. The newest triumph from the burgeoning national cinema of romania police, adjective is a wry comedy about crime, conscience and the beauty of language from the director of 1. A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.
Its most exciting scene features characters reading the dictionary out loud. Shot through with sour irony rather than bullets, this romanian policier is satirically inerta. With dragos bucur, vlad ivanov, ion stoica, irina saulescu. It won the jury prize at the 2009 cannes film festival and was nominated to represent romania for the 2010 academy awards. Jan 11, 2010 the romanian film police, adjective won the jury prize at last years cannes international film festival, and is also romanias entry for a foreign language oscar this year. Despite or perhaps in part because of its unorthodox crowning scene, the romanian directors sophomore film has wowed critics, taking a jury. A critic from romania, sitting next to us before the screening, explained that the purity of the language is enforced as fervently in romania as in france, and police, of course, is properly a noun. The romanian film suggesting that the spirit of the police state is far from dead is intriguing, if somewhat deadening, writes peter bradshaw. Police, adjective is a heartbreaking and ultimately very bleak film but not without flashes of warmth and humor. Dragos bucurs winning soulful sincerity perfectly suits the lead part. Corneliu porumboius police, adjective is a piece of work that will fascinate audiences who are looking for projects outside of the expectations of what a film should be like. Corneliu porumboiu returned to cannes ten years after 2009s police, adjective with the whistlers, one of the freshest genre hybrids in a festival full of them. The sense of approach or way of management derives from polis, but the word for an insurance contract may stem from the latin word apodexis, meaning proof. Police, adjective is a deadly serious as well as dryly humorous analysis of bureaucratic procedure and, particularly, the tyranny of language.
But the dryly funny romanian import police, adjective takes the genre into a novel and unexpected realm that is simultaneously mannered, measured, minimalist, and furiously existential. The first adjective that bests describes the police officers who are at the house of patrick maloney investigating his murder is easily led. For his superior, the word conscience has an entirely different. Thus was born the whistlers, his homage to classic film noir, but pitched at a different frequency. Its very important that when people are recording the police, they not interfere with officers. Film criticism requires one to be objective about a subjective experience. O ne of the most fascinating movies of the year, this romanian police procedural thriller is shot in long takes some tracking shots, some from a fixed position as cristi, a plainclothes cop. Police, adjective 2009 directed by corneliu porumboiu.
True to its title, the new romanian film police, adjective is a story of. Unlike conventional police movies, which deal with speedy cars and highly dangerous delinquents, police, adjective is made out of a completely different kind of alloy. Police, adjective is a minimalist police procedural film that follows the hard work of one man trailing a teenage boy on suspicion of drugs offences that is at the same time a portrait of postcommunist romanian, a discussion of the nature of police work and the law, alienation and the effects of being a policeman on the policeman. Consider examples of how the word police is used as an adjective, to appreciate the subtlety of the political commentary. At the level of plot, it is consistently engaging, and the psychology of the ambivalent detective, a staple of film noir, is given a new twist in.
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