"The crime genre seduced me because, every time around, it involves you, the viewer; it's like a puzzle in which you are involved and which provokes you to foresee what is to come...Working on this film, I chose to look, in an almost clinical way, at a police procedural and the way in which cops react; I follow Cristi around the same way he follows his suspects around, with the strong belief that cinema is witness to a meaningless world." - writer-director Corneliu Porumboiu. "Confounds expectations..a subversive intellectual exercise, a philosophical jest." - Kenneth Turan, LA Times. "Exquisitely dry... just about flawless.... ranks right up there with 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS" - Phillips, Chicago Tribune.