Country: Romania
Year: 2009
Duration: 113\'
POLICE, ADJECTIVE
Cristi is a policeman who has to tail and frame a boy who has been accused by a classmate of using and selling drugs. As he picks up the remains of a joint, the policeman looks for proof of drug dealing but is unable to find any. In Romania, even the use and possession of drugs are against the law but Cristi decides not to ruin the life of a boy who behaves like so many others his age in other European countries. He refuses to arrest him, disobeying the orders of his superior, because he is convinced that the law will soon be changed.
“The crime genre seduced me because, every time around, it involves you, the viewer; it is like a puzzle in which you are involved and which provokes you to foresee what is to come. In the end, all things will be clarified and everything will make sense. Working on this film, I chose to look in an almost clinical way at police procedures and the way in which cops react; I followed him around, with the strong belief that cinema is witness to a meaningless world.”
Biography
film director
Corneliu Porumboiu
Corneliu Porumboiu (Vaslui, Romania, 1975) debuted in 2000 with the short Graffiti. His first feature film, 12:08 East of Bucharest, won the 2006 Caméra d’or and the Label Europa Cinemas Award at the Cannes Film Festival, where in 2009 he won the Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI prize for Police, adjective in the section Un certaine regard. In 2013, he participated at the Locarno Film Festival with When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism and, the next year, at the Forum of the Berlinale with the documentary The Second Game.
FILMOGRAFIA
Graffiti (cm, 2000), Love… Sorry (cm, 2001), Post Telefonic Suspendat Temporar (cm, 2002), Pe aripile vinului (cm, 2002), Calatorie la oras (cm, 2003), Visul lui Liviu (cm, 2004), A fost sau n-a fost? (A est di Bucarest, 2006) Politist, adjectiv (Police, adjective, 2009), Când se lasa seara peste Bucuresti sau metabolism (When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism, 2013), Ai doilea joc (The Second Game, 2014), Comoara (The Treasure, 2015).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Corneliu Porumboiu
fotografia/cinematography
Marius Panduru
montaggio/film editing
Roxana Szel
scenografia/production design
Mihaela Poenaru
costumi/costume design
Giorgiana Bostan
musica/music
Dan Dimitriu
suono/sound
Alexandru Dragomir, Sebastian Zsemlye
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Dragos Bucur (Cristi), Vlad Ivanov (Anghelache), Ion Stoica (Nelu), Irina Saluescu (Anca)
produttore/producer
Marcela Ursu
produzione/production
42 Km Films
vendita all’estero/world sales
Coach 14
Corneliu Porumboiu
fotografia/cinematography
Marius Panduru
montaggio/film editing
Roxana Szel
scenografia/production design
Mihaela Poenaru
costumi/costume design
Giorgiana Bostan
musica/music
Dan Dimitriu
suono/sound
Alexandru Dragomir, Sebastian Zsemlye
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Dragos Bucur (Cristi), Vlad Ivanov (Anghelache), Ion Stoica (Nelu), Irina Saluescu (Anca)
produttore/producer
Marcela Ursu
produzione/production
42 Km Films
vendita all’estero/world sales
Coach 14
