Police Beat

Name: Police Beat
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: April 28, 2006
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 58

2006

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Northwest Film Forum / WigglyWorld Studios | Release Date: April 28, 2006

Summary: Police Beat is both a strikingly poetic examination of displacement and a gently surreal compendium of criminal behavior. Z, a young Senegalese and Muslim man, experiences his adopted city of Seattle through his job as a bicycle cop, leading him to encounters with all manner of strange and troubled people. Z himself, however, is lessPolice Beat is both a strikingly poetic examination of displacement and a gently surreal compendium of criminal behavior. Z, a young Senegalese and Muslim man, experiences his adopted city of Seattle through his job as a bicycle cop, leading him to encounters with all manner of strange and troubled people. Z himself, however, is less concerned with his job than with the possibility that his American girlfriend may be cheating on him while on a camping trip with a male friend. (Director's Statement)… Expand

Director: Robinson Devor

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Runtime: 80 min

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Paula Nechak

Pape Sidy Niang is terrific as the cop, Z, who is viewing America through a new immigrant's eyes. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

A delicately funny tale about everyday surrealism. Read full review

Rob Nelson

Dreamlike in style, Police Beat is also a real-world vision of what American indies could be if they dared to recognize the drama in our own neighborhoods. Read full review

Joe Leydon

Distinctive, physically ravishing indie is a natural for fests, but it's questionable whether this sometimes involving, sometimes obscure pic will have appeal beyond the specialty market. Read full review

James Greenberg

Soulful performance by non-pro Pape Sidy Niang as the bicycle-riding police officer Z, gives the film a poetic tone, but cumulative impact is diffused rather than enhanced by the fractured form. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Looks great, and the performances are solid, but the disparate elements in this oddity - which created a minor stir at the Sundance Film Festival last year - never entirely coalesce. Read full review

Peter Hanson

The most frustrating aspect of Police Beat is that it's clear everyone involved has great talent...Too bad all their efforts are lost in the service of pointless material. Read full review

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