Tag Archives: Corneliu Porumboiu

excessive minimalism (film: Police, Adjective – Corneliu Porumboiu, 2009)

It took me more than a decade to get to see Corneliu Porumboiu‘s second film, made in 2009, ‘Police, Adjective‘. The film presented and award-winner at Cannes and other important festivals of that year was one of the most representative … Continue reading

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gangsters ‘film noir’ made in Romania (Film: La Gomera / The Whistlers – Cornel Porumboiu, 2019)

The maturity of a film school is measured not only by masterpieces or films awarded with gold at major festivals, but also by ‘average’ movies, belonging to popular genres or film niches. If this criterion is correct, then we can … Continue reading

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a cinematograhic exercise with no substance (Film: Când se lasa seara peste Bucuresti sau Metabolism – Corneliu Porumboiu, 2013)

I am following quite closely the development of the Romanian cinema, and Corneliu Porumboiu is one of the directors whose previous work I enjoyed a lot, especially ’12:08 East of Bucharest’ which was a story about the 1989 events of … Continue reading

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