POLIŢIST, ADJECTIV
Romania 2009
DIR Corneliu Porumboiu
PROD Corneliu Porumboiu
SCR Corneliu Porumboiu
CAST Dragoş Bucur, Vlad Ivanov
Ah... film not seen. Here's the notes: Porumboiu, a leading figure in the New Romanian Wave, and director of the witty and trenchant 12:08 East of Bucharest, has scored again with a wonderfully mordant satire, this time of the police and bureaucracy of "justice". Cristi, a reluctant undercover cop, is on stake-out, engaged in the tedia of procedural police work as he stakes out the movements of a suspected/potential young drug dealer. As Cristi becomes more and more convinced of his "stalkee" he comes face to face with the absurd Kafkaesque legal system through a brilliant parodic linguistic analysis of the job he has undertaken and the issues of personal moral responsibility.
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