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Policier, adjectif

Original title: Politist, adjectiv
  • 2009
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 55m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
5.4K
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Policier, adjectif (2009)
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...
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A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.

  • Director
    • Corneliu Porumboiu
  • Writer
    • Corneliu Porumboiu
  • Stars
    • Dragos Bucur
    • Vlad Ivanov
    • Ion Stoica
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  • IMDb RATING
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    • Director
      • Corneliu Porumboiu
    • Writer
      • Corneliu Porumboiu
    • Stars
      • Dragos Bucur
      • Vlad Ivanov
      • Ion Stoica
    • 45User reviews
    • 131Critic reviews
    • 81Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 15 wins & 15 nominations total

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    Dragos Bucur
    Dragos Bucur
    • Cristi
    Vlad Ivanov
    Vlad Ivanov
    • Anghelache
    Ion Stoica
    • Nelu
    Irina Saulescu
    Irina Saulescu
    • Anca
    Cerasela Trandafir
    • Gina
    Marian Ghenea
    • Prosecutor
    Cosmin Selesi
    • Costi
    Serban Georgevici
    • Sica
    George Remes
    George Remes
    • Vali
    • (as Remes George)
    Adina Dulcu
    • Dana
    Dan Cogalniceanu
    • Gica
    Constantin Dita
    • Officer on Duty
    • (as Costi Dita)
    Alexandru Sabadac
    • Alex
    Anca Diaconu
    • Doina
    Radu Costin
    • Victor
    Viorel Nebunu
    • Alex's Father
    Emanoela Tigla
    • Alex's Mother
    Daniel Bîrsan
    • Barman
    • Director
      • Corneliu Porumboiu
    • Writer
      • Corneliu Porumboiu
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    User reviews45

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    DataCraft

    One of the most boring film I ever watched

    As a romanian I can not believe that some people actually liked this. The action is so slow. I mean we spend 10 minutes watching the main character eat soup, in another scene we see him for about 15 minutes undressing when he comes home.

    I mean ... come on what were they trying to do ? Waste film. IMHO

    As for the directing goes I have no objection, as this is very easy to film.

    You can honestly fit the script into 1 A4 page. Just trash IMO. But that does not mean that we do not make good films.

    Better luck next time.
    jerkwade

    It grows on you

    I first watched this film about a year ago, and I struggled through it because it truly is one of the slowest and uneventful films you'll ever see, but It has grown on me a lot and isn't a film that you'll forget after seeing. The film deals with themes like guilt, responsibility, choice, patience, with some underlined political themes. Its one thing to conceptualize a film effectively but it's another to execute it correctly, and I think Corneliu Porumboiu did a very honorable job in both those departments. It's one of my favorite films, actually. there's a scene near the end of the film where the main character, one of his colleagues, and his boss are sitting in his office discussing the main character's struggle between the law and his own conscience. This scene goes on for close to 30 minutes if i remember correctly, and it's all done on one shot, with the exception of a few little overlapping shots to view the contents of a dictionary in the main character's hands. I was really impressed by that whole scene. Even if you don't love it, it's definitely worth at least one watch.
    8lee_eisenberg

    conscience meets adjectives

    I recently saw "4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days", about a woman's efforts to have an abortion in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania. Now comes "Politist, adj." ("Police, Adjective" in English), Romania's submission to the Academy Awards as Best Foreign Language Film of 2009. This one looks at small-town cop Cristi (Dragos Bucur) assigned to investigate a boy smoking hashish, and how he begins to have misgivings about the ethical ramifications of the task.

    What strikes me is how much this small town in Romania looks like Russia. Most of the buildings all have a very Eastern Bloc look. To be certain, there are a few scenes where Dragos goes to the boy's house in what appears to be a posher section of the town, with more modern-looking houses. Many of the scenes in the film are long shots, especially the scene where Cristi and his superior use the dictionary to debate the true meaning of conscience and other words.

    I don't know if I would call this the greatest movie ever made, but I still recommend it. The scene where Cristi eats dinner while his wife has an obnoxious song playing on the computer really shows Cristi's break in terms of conscience, just because of how he reacts.

    Anyway, I like to get to see cultures that we don't often see, and I really liked this movie. I hope that Romania gives us more like this.
    10Mihnea_aka_Pitbull

    Cinema, superlative - credible, original, precise

    One of the best movies of the year - and, definitely, of the Romanian cinema all over.

    After "12:08: East of Bucharest" (aka "A fost sau n-a fost" - original title), Cornel Porumboiu does it again: an incisive and tender, empathic and ruthless look into our contemporary humanity. It brings back memories of Kafka's "Trial": the blind mechanism of Law, meant to help us live better and, because of so many machine-like people, turned into a device for destroying lives. In the role of the young policeman who loses his faith into the system, Dragos Bucur brings on screen another of his memorable performances - subtle, deep, finely tuned.

    But the main virtue of this excellent movie, of course, is Cornel's directing - credible, original, precise. The static long shots, creating pent-up inner tensions... the unbearable waiting scenes, under a leaden sky... the discrete plastic compositions of the frame... the insidious rhythm... the careful attention to the minutest details - everything, with a due meaning and a perfectly weighted impact.

    Special kudos for the pivotal scene built up around Mirabela Dauer's song "I Don't Leave You Love" - a rare piece of abstruse idiocy, used as a main axis for the protagonist's confrontation with the life's absolute absurdity. The scene is so masterfully built and shot, that it makes us scream laughing (in Cannes, the audience was delirious) - but the ultimate meaning is tragic... this being Porumboiu's definitory characteristic - as he said himself: "comical authors are often the saddest ones of all".
    7filmalamosa

    character study

    This film is good... by contrast last night I watched Two Women with Sophia Loren (1960)...a film that had a veritable circus of characters none of which stayed with me more than 15 minutes.

    I will remember Christi in this film for a long time. Yes it is slow at times especially the scene of them waiting in the office to see Christi's boss. And the dictionary sequence was tedious. But the pay off is you come to really know this character.

    This is just the sort of film I like to stumble on.. something that stays with you. Distant (A Turkish film) is a similar slow moving film.

    One actor has to carry this film entirely for almost two hours--it was a flawless performance by him.

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    • Trivia
      Romania's official submission to 82nd Academy Award's Foreign Language in 2010.
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Extraordinary Measures/Fish Tank/Creation/Police, Adjective/Crazy on the Outside (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      Nu te parasesc iubire
      Performed by Mirabela Dauer

      Arranged by Dan Dimitriu

      Lyrics by Dan Ioan Pantoiu

      Produced by Roton Music

      Played and discussed at Cristi's home

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    • Release date
      • May 19, 2010 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Romania
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • Romanian
    • Also known as
      • Police, Adjective
    • Filming locations
      • Vaslui, Romania
    • Production companies
      • 42 Km Film
      • Periscop Film
      • Racova
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €800,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $53,206
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $19,452
      • Dec 27, 2009
    • Gross worldwide
      • $162,974
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 55 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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