Trailer: Police, Adjective
By Craig Kennedy - November 19th, 2009; 2:55 pm
Apple has the trailer for Romanian director Corneliu Poromboiu’s drly comic and thoughtful Police, Adjective, a film that explores the grey area between what is right and what is law. Dragos Bucur plays a conscientious young policeman being pressured by his superiors to arrest a teenaged hash smoker when he’s convinced the arrest won’t lead to the boy’s dealer but only ruin a young life.
Winner of the Un Certain Regard jury prize and the Fipresci Critics prize at Cannes, Police, Adjective is Romania’s official entry for the foreign language Oscar. It opens in limited release on December 23.
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Interesting. It’s not at all what I expected based on what little I’d read and heard about the film, but it still looks good. It looks–from the trailer at least–more dryly humorous than I was expecting. The exploration of language in it appeals to me, too.
Yes, it does look interesting, and as jennybee says, the language thing could be an interesting exploration. Former Soviet bloc countries such as Romania seem to be breeding grounds for vital cinema.
I interviewed the dude who directed it but it was largely a disaster so we’ll see if I ever transcribe it.
As I was watching the movie, I didn’t find it as openly funny as some of the other reviewers have, but in retrospect I think I was just in a weird mood.