February-26 FRI, 27 SAT, 28 SUN 9:15pm:
An MBC Premiere «DIGITAL» Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical DIGITAL Premiere!
Police Adjective (Politist, adj.)
Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu/Romania/2009/115mins.)
With Dragos Bukur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Salescu, Ion Stoica
Police Adjective, like 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, is a stunning example of minimalist realism in the New Romanian Cinema. Cristi is a policeman who refuses to arrest a young man who offers hash 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 an entirely different meaning…
In Romanian with English subtitles.
WINNER: Cannes Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize,
Un Certain Regard Jury Prize
Transilvania Trophy, Transilvania Int. Film Festival
A SMALL MASTERPIECE.”-J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
“Further proof of the strength of the Romanian New Wave”ONE OF THE FINEST FILMS OF THIS YEARS FESTIVAL.” -Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“EASILY THE BEST FILM IN CANNES not screening in the main competition. It is nothing less than letters and laws of both the legal and grammatical variety that are the keys to Porumboiu’s wonderfully pliable, allegorical theme.”
–Scott Foundas, LA Weekly
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