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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
55 Views


- Don't you two have girlfriends?

- No.

- Neither you, nor Victor?

- Neither of us.

So, don't forget

about Victor's brother,

and get me a sample for the file.

- I'll try.

- I can't go on without it.

I'll try.

- I'll get it.

- Thanks.

- I really have to go.

- Am I stopping you?

Thank you.

Goodbye.

Call me when you find out,

or send an SMS.

- Yes, I'll call you. Goodbye.

- Bye.

Good evening.

Hello.

Your dinner's on the cooker.

- Have you eaten?

- Yes.

Turn it down a bit.

Turn it down a bit.

Among white blossoming branches

The day is soon forgotten

The whispering of night surrounds me

With the perfume of spring

You say I am dear to you

You will love me a lifetime

And don't believe in separation

You believe in longing and happiness

I won't leave you, love

For a moment of illusion

I won't leave your side

If you will be with me

What would the sea be

without the sun?

What would the field be

without the flower?

What would today be

without tomorrow?

What would life be

without you?

Life goes forward

Who believes? Who lies?

Speak up, he who has betrayed

My insane love

Life goes forward

Love may bring

Happiness and pain

And love and silence

I won't leave you, love

For a moment of illusion

I won't leave your side

If you will be with me

What would the sea be

without the sun?

What would the field be

without the flower?

What would today be

without tomorrow?

What would life be

without you?

This food is really good.

Anca, this song

doesn't make any sense.

Why?

"What would the field be without the flower?"

"What would the sea be without the sun?"

What else would it be? It would

still be the field and the sea.

I haven't paid that much

attention to the lyrics.

Why do you like it then?

They're like images.

Meaning, love wouldn't be

as beautiful otherwise.

As what?

Like the sea without the sun?

Yes.

"Life goes on".

Can it go backwards?

Can we talk

when it's over, please?

Do you picture any image?

No.

"I won't leave you, love".

- Love is without an article.

- What?

She's saying,

"I won't leave you love",

love being without article.

She's meaning love as an absolute.

So?

So it's an anaphora.

What anaphura?

ANA-PHO-RA, not ANA-PHU-RA.

It's a rhetorical device.

Didn't you hear "what would be?"

"What would the sea be with no sun?

What would the field be

with no flowers?

Today without tomorrow?

Life without you?"

It tries to define this ideal love

by associating it with symbols.

The sea is infinite,

the sun is light,

the field is birth, creation,

and the flower is beauty.

Hold on...

Are they images or symbols?

They're not images,

they're symbols.

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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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