Corneliu Porumboui's drama about a police inspector who pays both sides of the law was picked up for U.S. distribution rights by Magnolia Pictures at Cannes.
for the international feature category at the 2020 Academy Awards.this year where it was picked up for U.S distribution rights by Magnolia Pictures — is the story of a plot by a police inspector to spring a corrupt businessman from jail on a Spanish island.
But before Cristi a police inspector from Bucharest can embark with the beautiful Gilda on the high-stakes heist, he will need to not only navigate corruption, treachery and deception — but also learn the island's dialect, which includes hissing and spitting in its vocabulary. "Some of the director's passionate followers may feel a bit bemused by this shift away from the long takes and scruffy production values of his earlier Romanian New Wave work,"wrote in its review. "However, Porumboiu's recurring preoccupation with language, loyalty and the legacy of Nicolae Ceaușescu's repressive regime is still there, just approached from another angle.
Romania has been submitting films to the Oscars since 1966, but has never been nominated. In 2012, Cristian Mungiu's
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