Zeitgeist will release the 2009 foreign-language comedy-drama Police, Adjective, by Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), on DVD on Aug. 30. It will carry a list price of $29.99.
Irina Saulescu and Dragos Bucur ponder the future in Police, Adjective.
The winner of two prizes at the 2010 Cannes International Film Festival — the Fipresci and Un Certain Regard Jury Prizes — the movie tells the story of Cristi (Dragos Bucur), a young undercover cop who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he’s forced to arrest a teenager who offers hashish to classmates. Cristi doesn’t want to ruin the life of a teen whom he think is merely irresponsible, so Cristi must either allow the arrest to weigh on his conscience or face disciplinary action by his self-serious superior (Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days).
Presented in Romanian with English subtitles, the masterfully ironic Police, Adjective features one of the best, funniest...
Irina Saulescu and Dragos Bucur ponder the future in Police, Adjective.
The winner of two prizes at the 2010 Cannes International Film Festival — the Fipresci and Un Certain Regard Jury Prizes — the movie tells the story of Cristi (Dragos Bucur), a young undercover cop who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he’s forced to arrest a teenager who offers hashish to classmates. Cristi doesn’t want to ruin the life of a teen whom he think is merely irresponsible, so Cristi must either allow the arrest to weigh on his conscience or face disciplinary action by his self-serious superior (Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days).
Presented in Romanian with English subtitles, the masterfully ironic Police, Adjective features one of the best, funniest...
- 5/19/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Police, Adjective is one of those films we refer to as a slow burn, a movie that is more about what is percolating underneath than on the surface. To note, not a whole lot happens on that surface, and the film rides that edge between tedium of interest with a certain level of threat of toppling over. It never does, though, and, thanks in large part to the direction by Corneliu Porumboiu and the lead performance from Dragos Bucur, the film ends up being an intriguing study of the way one man’s world works even if he doesn’t fully understand it.
Bucur plays Cristi, a Romanian police officer set with the assignment of following a young man who may or may not be a drug dealer. Cristi soon comes to his own conclusions as to the boy’s innocence, and his interests in another boy, the one who...
Bucur plays Cristi, a Romanian police officer set with the assignment of following a young man who may or may not be a drug dealer. Cristi soon comes to his own conclusions as to the boy’s innocence, and his interests in another boy, the one who...
- 2/5/2010
- by Kirk
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to writer/director Corneliu Porumboiu's "Police, Adjective," the tale of a police officer who has a crisis of faith. The film will be Romania's entry for the 2009 foreign-language Oscar.
"Police" stars Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica and Irina Saulescu and will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, followed by its U.S. bow at the New York Film Festival.
IFC has established an affinity with Romanian cinema, having distributed Cristian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" and recently picked up that director's "Tales From The Golden Age."
The deal for "Police" was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, IFC Films vp of acquisitions with Pape Boye of Coach 14. The movie will be released via the company's IFC in Theaters platform, which offers video-on-demand titles on the same day as their theatrical release.
"Police" stars Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica and Irina Saulescu and will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, followed by its U.S. bow at the New York Film Festival.
IFC has established an affinity with Romanian cinema, having distributed Cristian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" and recently picked up that director's "Tales From The Golden Age."
The deal for "Police" was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, IFC Films vp of acquisitions with Pape Boye of Coach 14. The movie will be released via the company's IFC in Theaters platform, which offers video-on-demand titles on the same day as their theatrical release.
- 8/20/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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