Corneliu Porumboiu's POLICE, ADJECTIVE, one of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year, opened on Wednesday, December 23 in New York City at the IFCCenter, and in other theaters on the West coast, and is still showed across the U.S.
A double-winner at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is a whip-smart, dryly funny comedy and is Romania's official entry to the 2009 Academy Awards.
"Corneliu Porumboiu's remarkably self-effacing and highly intelligent comedy - a philosophical crime film that, as the investigation of an investigation, substitutes irony for suspense. (...) With its series of apparently absurd routines, shot (Romanian-style) in long takes and real-time, 'Police, Adjective' has something of the deadpan theatricality of early Jim Jarmush not only in its framing, but its dialogue: Words are carefully parsed; every conversation has its own logic." (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice)
“A perfectly timed, slow-to-boil absurdist comedy.” - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"A brilliant black comedy about language, power and law enforcement. Belongs with the peaks of the new Romanian cinema." - Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
"Corneliu Porumbiou's Police, Adjective is certainly the smartest film I’ve seen this year…" - Mark Peranson, Cinemascope
