Corneliu Porumboiu
5 titles · european arthouse
Was there a revolution in our town or wasn't there? Sixteen years on, a local TV station owner puts that question to his guests in 12:08 East of Bucharest. Porumboiu's comedies are dry and wordy, and they care about what words mean. In Police, Adjective a young policeman is reluctant to arrest a kid for smoking pot. The Whistlers sends a Romanian officer who informs for the mafia to the Canary Islands to learn a whistled language.
Signature
- Deadpan comedy built on words and definitions.
- Provincial Romania after 1989.
- Long static takes of people talking.
- Genre plots emptied out and played straight (The Treasure, The Whistlers).
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