Beginning your crime film with “The Passenger” by Iggy Pop is a marvelous idea and one that excitingly sets the tone for the very clever and labyrinthine noir “La Gomera” (“The Whistlers” in the English version). With his latest film director Corneliu Porumboiu has created a fantastic and riveting pop-culture cops-and-mobsters film that occasionally gives way to philosophical leanings. Vlad ... more >
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MOVIE REVIEW: “La Gomera”
A new film by the director of "Police, Adjective"
Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon and Rodica Lazar
Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu
Police, Adjective
A police officer has a crisis of faith
Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov and Irina Saulescu
Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu
Have you ever said that you would pay to watch your favorite actor read the dictionary? Well if you happen to be Romanian, now you can! Not only that – the dictionary happens to be one of the more action-packed sequences of Police-Adjective. Forced to read the definition of “police” after objecting to an assignment, the detective notes that it describes a form of story with drama and suspense. ... more >