Corneliu Porumboiu’s Typical Vibe
2 films — slow-burn, wistful, gentle, layered, quiet

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Corneliu Porumboiu has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s.

It's the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Piscoci, an old retired man is preparing for another Christmas alone. Manescu, the history teacher, tries to keep up with his debts. Jderescu, the owner of a local television post, seems not to be so interested in the upcoming holidays. For him, the time to face history has come. Along with Manescu and Piscoci, he is trying to answer for himself a question which for 16 years has not had an answer: "Was it or wasn't it a revolution in their town?"
Dir. Corneliu Porumboiu · With Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru

A Romanian police officer, determined to free from prison a crooked businessman who knows where a mobster's money is hidden, must learn the difficult ancestral whistling language (Silbo Gomero) used on the island of Gomera.
Dir. Corneliu Porumboiu · With Catrinel Marlon, Vlad Ivanov, Rodica Lazăr