7.5/10
Corneliu Porumboiu is a fascinating filmmaker, but this may be his most impenetrable work yet. Actually it feels less like a movie and more like a series of shorts or experiments that evolved into a full-length movie. However, like in his two previous movies, his dialogue casts a spell, which is good because much of the movie consists of the seemingly mundane conversations between a director and his star actress/lover. There is a lot going on here - a director finding himself in his movie, a director with comparatively little direction, a director cramped by the limitations of his format...but "movie within a movie" talk outside, I felt like Porumboiu had interesting things to say about life itself - like Sangsoo, the repetition of life, and especially how he broke every day actions down further and further (in repeatedly rehearsing a nude scene with his actress) into the very essence of daily mundanity. I was reminded of two quotes - one I'd seen recently in a movie about how you can draw a line from point A to B, then divide that in half and draw a line to the halfway point, and divide that in half and draw another line, and so on until you go insane...and Jim Morrison's quote about the highs and lows of life and anything else being just "in between" - the in between being Porumboiu's prime concern.
I also think this was, like Police Adjective, an incredibly dark comedy...maybe the slowest-moving, least obvious comedy ever, but one nonetheless.
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