Police, adjective shorn of any manufactured drama or pyrotechnics, police, adjective is an absorbing procedural that finds its thrills in the patient bureaucracy of police work. Shot through with sour irony rather than bullets, this romanian policier is satirically inerta. The department has tapped him to trail victor radu costin, a hashishsmoking teenager suspected of. I realize that some of these films were released in other parts of the world in 2009, and some wont be released until 2011. The story revolves around two police officers with different ideologies. O ne of the most fascinating movies of the year, this romanian police procedural thriller is. That shopworn phrase by the book takes on a doggedly literal meaning in police, adjective. 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. I started to read about the language, and i went to the island where they were teaching it. Video archive for the film police, adjective politist, adj. Yet it is an exciting scene, because it lays out in stark, unambiguous terms the inflexible words bucur has been bucking against so determinedly. His bosses take a more traditional police approach and he has a crisis of conscience.
Each film on this list had to have had at least one theatrical screening in milwaukee though i only saw about a third of these films in a theatre, and they have to have premiered here in 2010. 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. Police, adjective is about a taciturn, plainclothed police officer who has developed a conscience over making an arrest, an unusual occurrence in the bureaucratic, postcommunist society of romania where the law is rigidly enforced regardless of its logic. Cristi dragos bucur is a seasoned police detective who has just gotten married to anca irina saulescu and wants to keep his superiors happy. Over time, cristi begins to question the ethical ramifications of his task. Traffic police definition and meaning collins english.
Porumboius police, adjective is a particularly interesting case. Still walking also made my list of ten criterion titles were still. Police, adjective, for instance, is not a film about the verbal or visual nature of the. The posters at cannes 2009 read politist, adjective. Police, adjective is admittedly in many ways difficult to interpret. Police, adjective is laden with import, semiotic weight. Watch police, adjective english subtitled prime video. Thats the dilemma posed by corneliu porumboius police, adjective. For general instructions on how to apply for financial aid, please visit the office of undergraduate financial aid website. Police, adjective 2008 stream and watch online moviefone.
Vlad ivanov who costarred in police, adjective and won acclaim for his role as the fearsome abortionist in 4 months stars as cristi, a. Cristis boss, nelu, has ordered the detective to keep a close watch on victor radu. Kiarostamis idea of cinema is one that requires the physical presence of an audience for the completion of the enterprise that the filmmaker has. A few minutes from the end, this film appears in the form of an elegant plan, as the diagram of a. Reeves wiedeman visits a workshop hosted by peoples justice, a police accountability group, on the best practices for capturing police encounters on camera. The award for most ungainly title for a current movie goes to the new romanian film police, adjective, written and directed. Criterion teases at koreeda hirokazus still walking. Trailer for police, adjective, which screened at the 2009 vancouver international film festival cristi is an undercover cop who spends a lot of his time on the beat in vasilu, romania, walking and watchingseeking out the truth but filtering it through his own perceptions. Dragos bucur as plainclothes cop cristi in police, adjective. The fact that police is not an adjective rather, a noun or transitive verb is one of many perplexing oddities about this perplexingly odd movie from romanian director corneliu porumboiu, who made the muchadmired 12. The fifth film from director hong sangsoo, woman is the future of man is what one would expect from hong, a great film that affects more than seems possible. The movie focuses on policeman cristi, who is investigating a teenage boy who has been smoking hashish.
The profession is policed by its own regulatory body. Corneliu porumboius 2009 film, police, adjective, is a romanian new wave. 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. That rigid fidelity would make ness the villain in corneliu porumboius police, adjective, a clever, exceedingly wonky procedural about a undercover cop dragos bucur who quietly refuses to do what hes told. Police, adjective has to be one of the harder sells in recent distribution history. Philip french is fascinated by a romanian police procedural thriller. Sexual politics in the chinese martial arts film, senses of cinema, issue 26, 2003. Thats not to be exclusionary, condescending, condemnatory. There are currently two videos available for the film, of which two are trailers, as listed below.
What would be 3 good adjectives for the policemen in this. The image, seen below, is from hirokazu koreedas 2009 film, still walking, which was one of the titles initially mentioned when the criterion collection teamed up with ifc, back in september of 2009. Undercover cop cristi dragos bucur trails suspected pot dealer victor radu costin through the decrepit streets of vaslui, but when he learns that the suspect is just a teen who sometimes gets high with his pals, he refuses to make an arrest. Focalization patterns and narrative reality effects in police.
A border town with hong kong, and now accessible via metro rail, shenzhen was the first special economic zone sez to be created by deng xiaopings new economic policy. Foucault 1983, 21 we can draw the conclusion that magrittes strategy of. The film stars sriram, prithviraj sukumaran, kamalinee mukherjee and sanjjanaa in the lead roles. The film is romanias official entry to the 2009 academy awards. It was then that i knew i wanted to do a film about the character from police, adjective. As the title suggests, its a lexicographical film, in which the uses of language and the meaning. Get an answer for what would be 3 good adjectives for the policemen in this story lamb to the slaughter. Cristi dragos bucur is a young undercover cop who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he is pressured to arrest a teenager.
One 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, spends several cold autumn days following three highschool kids involved in drugs. Cristi is a police officer stalking and staking out a gang of young drug offenders in a small town in romania. Police police is a 2010 telugu buddy cop film directed by manmohan and produced by chandu. Police, adjective politist, adjectiv 2009 directed by corneliu porumboiu. Earlier today on their facebook page, criterion dropped a nice little tease in the form of a behind the scenes picture. He isnt so willfully blinded to the practical realities of applying the law. Despite or perhaps in part because of its unorthodox crowning scene, the romanian directors sophomore film has wowed critics, taking a. Police, adjective is in fact the abstract prequel of an action film.
The romanian film suggesting that the spirit of the police state is far from dead is intriguing, if somewhat deadening, writes. Polisse released at some film festivals as poliss, french pronunciation. Police, adjective 2009 directed by corneliu porumboiu. 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. Fresh from its win at last years qcinema international film festival, cleaners is set to be shown on march at two campuses of the universit. In almost all accounts of this movement, the romanian new waves films are characterized. Cop watchers also learn how police violence is racializedand often targets queer, transgender, and gendernonconforming people. The usual emphasis in a detective film is upended so that procedure, thrillingly, is more important than action. Bennings point may just be that our spoken and written media are incapable of translating.
A cop finds himself growing uncomfortable with his latest assignment in this study in the nature of power and authority from romanian director corneliu porumboiu. 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. Police, adjective 2009 corneliu porumboiu synopsis. Its most exciting scene features characters reading the dictionary out loud. Being a film about language and codes, i thought i could play with genres. The movie focuses on policeman cristi, who is investigating a teenage boy who.
Its the saga of cristi dragos bucur, a young and newly married police officer in romania, enmeshed in a crisis of conscience. Corneliu porumboius police, adjective is really two movies, varying significantly in their degree of success. Yesterday an unispired serial killerscifi flick that manages to entertain, despite being somewhat. This film has many layers but you will have to dig to get them and at 1 minutes. The romanian film suggesting that the spirit of the police state is far from dead is intriguing, if somewhat deadening, writes peter bradshaw. Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb police which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.
Certain situations being on probation, parole, etc. Emma wilson describes the mode of narration of 4 months. Times, sunday times 2010 why arent traffic police on the case, advising drivers of the problem. Throughout the film, porumboiu plays ingeniously with language, from the deliberate. Let us be clear this is a film about language, semantics to be precise, stunning in ambition if small in scale, literary, langourous it will not be, is not, for everyone. That is neither a plot spoiler or too short a synopsis as this is a basic film examining conscience. The first half of the film deals with classic police work classic as in reality, not classic as in. 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.