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| AWARDS IN CANNES 25/05/2009 |
| (2009-05-25) |
| Last updated: 2009-05-26 15:15 EET |
Romanian cinema scored a new success at the International Film Festival in Cannes. The film Policeman, Adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu won the jury prize in the “Un Certain Regard” section which acknowledges and rewards young talents and innovative works and also received the prize of the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI. The film tells the story of a young policeman from the country who is investigating a minor crime, which is harshly punished under Romanian law. As a result, the policeman loses his faith in the law he is supposed to enforce and comes to empathise with the young criminal. The climax of the film is the clash between the main protagonist and his superior. Porumboiu says the absurd plays an important role in his film, something which was also noted by the prestigious French paper “Le Monde”.
The newspaper praises the film and its charming semantic analysis of the stiff bureaucratic language used by the law. The American publications Variety and LA Weekly write that Porumboiu’s film is the best production not competing for Palme d’Or, an award won this year by the Austrian director Michael Haneke with The White Ribbon. The president of the festival jury, the Italian Paolo Sorrentino, congratulated Porumboiu for this achievement and said the last three shots of the film were genuine masterpieces. Le Monde also praises another Romanian production shown in Cannes this year called Recollections from the Golden Age, made up of 6 short films about the best known urban legends in Romania in the 1980s. The films are made by 6 different directors, including Cristian Mungiu, the winner of the Palme d’Or award in 2007 with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. This is not the first time that Corneliu Porumboiu wins a prize in Cannes.
In 2006, he received the Camera d’Or award for best debut film with 12:08 East of Bucharest. A third Romanian production presented in Cannes this year, Radu Jude’s The Happiest Girl in the World, was described by “Le Monde” as a remarkable production. The newspaper concludes that the three Romanian films presented this year in Cannes encapsulated 30 years of Romanian history and were deliciously humorous. Apart from Porumboiu, Ioan Antoci is another Romanian who got an award in Cannes, namely the Krzysztof Kieslowski for the best screenplay in Central and Eastern Europe with The Japanese Dog.
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