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POLICE, ADJECTIVE

Corneliu Porumboiu Romania, 2009
A showcase for Porumboiu’s formal precision with urban anyspace and penchant for mordant, slice-of-life humor, its wry punchline ultimately hinging (as the title boldly hints) on the vagaries of language.
December 23, 2009
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The New York Times
At once utterly plain, even affectless, and marvelously rich.
December 22, 2009
Porumboiu reflects this sense of moral rupture through the film's overarching structure.
October 2, 2009
Hammer to Nail
An ingenious formal experiment masquerading as a naturalistic docudrama, a quietly hilarious deadpan comedy, and, of all things, a thought-provoking rumination on language, Police, Adjective marks yet another stunning success for the new generation of Romanian filmmakers.
September 25, 2009
It was the least violent movie I've seen at Cannes, but nothing has been more disturbing than the movie's final scene, in which the cop's superior uses a dictionary and a blackboard to parse the meanings of "conscience" and "police." Images may record reality; words define it.
May 18, 2009
No one-hit wonder, Porumboiou confirms the promise of both the new Romanian cinema and his own status as a burgeoning world-class auteur.
May 17, 2009
The potency of [Police, Adjective] lays in the unsolved, cubic and multimedia key-to-the-puzzle aspect of these interstitial scenes, where petty events are cast and recast in minute ways.
May 16, 2009