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Jan 15, 2010
Out of Frame: Police, Adjective
Twenty years after the death of Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanians are still sorting through the legacy of his iron-fisted regime. This is especially apparent in the fantastic new wave of Romanian cinema of the last decade, as the country’s filmmakers are consistently fascinated with their totalitarian past and its aftermath. Even in a film like Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective, which is set in the present and contains no direct references to Ceauşescu, the man’s shadow…