New Release: Police, Adjective DVD

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Irina Saulescu and Dragos Bucur ponder the future in Police, Adjective.

Zeitgeist released the 2009 foreign-language comedy-drama Police, Adjective, by Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), on DVD on Aug. 30, 2011. It carries a list price of $29.99.

The winner of two prizes at the 2010 Cannes International Film Festival — the FIPRESCI and Un Certain Regard Jury Prizes — the movie tells the story of Cristi (Dragos Bucur), a young undercover cop who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he’s forced to arrest a teenager who offers hashish to classmates. Cristi doesn’t want to ruin the life of a teen whom he think is merely irresponsible, so he must either allow the arrest to weigh on his conscience or face disciplinary action by his self-serious superior (Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days).

Presented in Romanian with English subtitles, the masterfully ironic Police, Adjective features one of the best, funniest and completely unexpected climaxes that we’ve seen in a long time.

Following its victories at Cannes and an international film festival run, the film enjoyed a limited release in U.S. theaters back in December of 2009.

The DVD includes a collectible eight-page press booklet.

Take a look at the film’s trailer:

 

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.