POLICE, ADJECTIVE
Thursday, December 3 @ 7:30pm
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...

FIPRESCI Critics Prize, Un Certain Regard, 2009 Cannes Film Festival
"a perfectly timed, slow-to-boil absurdist comedy...further proof of the strength of the Romanian New Wave" -Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES
“A small masterpiece...has something of the deadpan theatricality that characterized early Jim Jarmusch." -J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"Certainly the smartest film I’ve seen this year...The richness of Porumboui’s seemingly simple creation allows it to be read as a reverse policier, a social drama, an attenuated art film bordering on parody, a moral tale. The film’s intelligence does not drive itself home until in its last remarkable scenes." -Mark Peranson, CINEMASCOPE
DIRECTOR and WRITER: Corneliu Poromboiu
CAST: Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ivan Stoica, Irina Saulescu
An IFC Films release
In Romanian with English subtitles
115 min