Police, Adjective

Synopsis: In grim, dull Vaslui, Cristi is a young police officer, conscientious, laconic, recently married to Anca, a teacher. He's tailing a kid who smokes pot and may be supplying his friends. Cristi dislikes the assignment: the kid's clearly not a dealer, an arrest would ruin his life, and, Cristi assumes that Romania will soon tolerate marijuana. His superior tells him flatly that the law is the law and to finish the case with a quick arrest. Cristi wants to follow the informant, a youth whose father is a builder. Cristi watches, he smokes, he writes reports, he wants to meet with the prosecutor. Can a cop have a conscience? Is the noun being modified "procedural" or "state"?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Corneliu Porumboiu
Production: IFC Films
  15 wins & 15 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
NOT RATED
Year:
2009
113 min
£26,692
Website
49 Views


"POLICE, ADJECTIVE"

Good morning, Prosecutor.

Cristi here.

I wonder if I could discuss

something with you.

Today, if possible.

In an hour. That's perfect!

Thank you very much.

- Hello.

- Hello.

- Nelu's not here?

- I think he's at the meeting.

- Didn't he leave a GPS for me?

- No.

- What are you doing?

- It's mine.

That's his closet, right?

Wait ten minutes,

he should be here.

In fact, I wanted to talk to you.

You still play foot-tennis, right?

- Yeah.

- Where?

By the pool.

Can I come too?

I want to lose this belly...

Why don't you jog

if you want to lose weight?

I get bored jogging. With tennis,

you follow the ball, it's different.

- So, how about it?

- All the positions are filled.

I can get a team together.

Waste of time. Boys won't be interested.

They play too well for you.

How do you know how I play?

I've seen you,

you're not much good.

What's that got to do with it?

Well, if you're weak at football,

you're weak at foot-tennis...

- Where'd you get that idea?

- Nowhere. That's how it is, it's a law.

- Is it written down somewhere?

- No, but it's still a law.

Just say

you don't want me to come!

- I think I just did.

- Don't go on about laws then.

I'm not going on about any law.

You are no good,

you'd only disrupt us.

- "Disrupt you"?

- Yeah. If you're not good, you'll disrupt us,

right?

Serious game this foot-tennis. You'd

think you were talking about chess.

Listen, tell Nelu I was looking

for him to get that GPS back.

- I'll tell him.

- Good.

Bye.

- Hello!

- Hi!

The Boss

was asking about you again.

Did you tell him I was busy?

He said to go to him

when you're finished.

- Did you say I was busy?

- I told him.

- What?

- That you were busy.

- Is that all?

- I said you were tailing the kid...

- And what did he say?

- Like I said, go to him when you'd finished.

- Is that all?

- That's all.

- See you.

- Bye.

- Good morning!

- Hello!

Come in.

- Good morning.

- Hello Cristi.

Take a seat.

Is it ready?

Not really.

What's this?

The case with the kid?

I've been following him a week.

Nothing!

- Meaning...

- I've also brought you the pursuit reports.

He's very withdrawn:

school, home,

a girl visits him sometimes,

and that's it.

- And his brother?

- I called Bucharest,

- he's in no database.

- Circle of friends?

Alex, the squealer, and a girl,

I don't know her name.

They don't seem

to have friends. He doesn't.

- He smokes?

- Yes.

- What?

- Hashish.

- Does he sell?

- No. And the squealer doesn't even

say he sells...

Where and when does he smoke?

Breaktimes,

in a park by the old army base...

- And then they go to school?

- Only Alex.

Who's Alex?

- Alex is the squealer.

- I see...

- And the other two?

- They hang around, or go to a bar.

Once they went to his place...

It's all in the file.

The parents?

- Whose?

- His, the dealer's.

Victor... I wouldn't call him

a dealer, because he isn't selling.

As far as you know.

What do his parents do?

They both work at a dairy,

he's a manager, she's an accountant.

The kind of couple who leaves

hand-in-hand comes home together.

- Neighbours?

- Nothing special.

I spoke to two. One is

a friend of mine in their building.

Hardly knows him. He knows the brother

better, the guy fixed his computer twice.

They're computer freaks.

And what does Anghelache say?

I've avoided him.

He'll ask me to make a sting operation

and sort it out when we take the statements.

- What do you propose instead?

- I'd begin following the squealer.

Why?

I don't understand why

he squeals on the other guy.

For the girl.

If he's the source of the drugs?

Then I've nothing, no evidence

except what this kid is telling me.

Cristi, you still have to make

the sting operation,

don't you?

I think we're rushing.

If his brother is the source,

there are two options...

- The first?

- He won't tell us about the brother

and we'll get him

only for consuming.

- He'll say...

- I wouldn't squeal on my brother.

Sure...

The second option?

He squeals,

he'll never forgive himself,

and I don't want

that on my conscience.

Did you put the joint in his mouth?

- That's the law, and that's it.

- A pretty bad law then.

Cristi, you're not qualified

to comment on the law.

Ok...

I went on honeymoon

to the Czech Rep...

- You got married?

- Yes.

Congratulations. Good for you, Cristi.

Why not Paris?

Paris, the "City of Love"!

My wife wanted it. If it was up to me,

we'd have gone to Turkey, to the coast.

Prague's beautiful too.

It's called the "Golden City".

The "Golden City"?

There're many buildings

with gold on them.

I saw a theatre with

an entire ceiling of gold.

Did you know that The Black Church

in Brasov once had a golden roof?

Yes. It burned down.

That's what the government

should be doing.

Renovate the roof

of the Black Church.

Then we could call Brasov

"The City of Gold".

You know,

it used to be called Stalin City.

"City of Gold" sounds great too.

It would attract loads of tourists.

Prague's a much bigger city.

Well, then we could call it

The Little Prague. It would still be better.

Well, anyway...

We'd have Bucharest as "Little Paris"

and Brasov, "Little Prague".

- Sounds great, doesn't it?

- Yes.

Prague is also called

"Little Paris".

- Really?!

- Yes... well.

You know what? Those Czechs are smart.

They just say it to sound more important.

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Corneliu Porumboiu

Corneliu Porumboiu (Romanian pronunciation: [korˈnelju porumˈboju]; born 14 September 1975) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. His 2006 feature 12:08 East of Bucharest won him the Caméra d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He is the son of football referee Adrian Porumboiu. His 2015 film The Treasure was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prix Un Certain Talent prize. more…

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