Men Of Deeds

Romania, Bulgaria • 2022

Fresh from the U.S. success of his indie hit Two Lottery Tickets, director Paul Negoescu goes into Twin Peaks-like territory and flexes his Coen Brothers’ muscles in his latest outing Men Of Deeds.

A middle-aged police chief (Iulian Postelnicu, in one of the best performances in recent Romanian cinema) goes on with his job and modest life in a small town, dreaming of having an orchard, managing regular drunken conflicts at the local bar and largely ignoring the mayor’s (Vasile Muraru) questionable deeds and the dubious things that happen in the village. But when a man is murdered, he jumps to the other extreme, trying to be what he has never been before: the justice seeker who arrests everyone guilty.

Winner of 6 GOPO Awards, 2022

Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing

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105 minutes

Romanian

English

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2.35:1

5.1

Paul Negoescu

Radu Romaniuc, Oana Tudor

Iulian Postelnicu, Vasile Muraru, Daniel Busuioc, Crina Semciuc, Oana Tudor, Anghel Damian

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"Pitch-dark comedy and sociopolitical commentary collide in Paul Negoescu’s portrait of a bumbling cop."

Neil Young
Screen International
"A bleakly compelling breathless, near-absurd farce... What Training Day might have been like as remade by Bruno Dumont."

Guy Lodge
Variety
"(The protagonist´s) decisions ultimately transform this tightly plotted police procedural, into an absurd crime caper, eschewing the mordant social realism we’ve come to expect from Romanian cinema, and culminating in perhaps the most hilarious Mexican standoff in recent cinema history."

Patrick Gamble
CineVue

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Audio commentary with Director Paul Negoescu, Actor Iulian Postelnicu, Cinematographer Ana Draghici & Producer Ana Voicu
Behind the scenes footage
Promotional interviews with the cast
Paul Negoescu’s 2007 student film “Late”
U.S. Theatrical Trailer
English, French, Italian subtitles

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Laemmle Royal Los Angeles, CA • Lumiere Music Hall Beverly Hills, CA • Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema New York, NY • Quad Cinema New York, NY • Romanian Film Fest DC Washington, DC • Romanian Film Fest Seattle Seattle, WA • Romanian Film Festival Saint Paul Saint Paul, MN • Southeast European Film Festival Los Angeles, CA

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"Pitch-dark comedy and sociopolitical commentary collide in Paul Negoescu’s portrait of a bumbling cop."

"A bleakly compelling breathless, near-absurd farce... What Training Day might have been like as remade by Bruno Dumont."

"(The protagonist´s) decisions ultimately transform this tightly plotted police procedural, into an absurd crime caper, eschewing the mordant social realism we’ve come to expect from Romanian cinema, and culminating in perhaps the most hilarious Mexican standoff in recent cinema history."

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