Magnolia Pictures has released a poster and trailer for the Romanian crime thriller The Whistlers, which is written and directed by Corneliu Porumboiu and stars Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon, Rodica Lazar, and Antonio Buíl. Check them out here, along with the official synopsis… In The Whistlers (La Gomera), not everything is as it seems for […]
55th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – The Whistlers (2019)
The Whistlers. 2019 Written and Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu Starring Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon, Rodica Lazăr, Sabin Tambrea, Agustí Villaronga, István Teglas, and Antonio Buíl Synopsis: A policeman intent on freeing a crooked businessman from a prison on Gomera, an island in the Canaries. However, he must first learn the difficult local dialect, a language […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Whistlers
The Whistlers, 2019. Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu. Starring Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon, Antonio Buíl, Rodica Lazar and Agustí Villaronga. SYNOPSIS: A bent cop becomes embroiled in a crime syndicate he was originally investigating and soon learns their secret language of coded whistles. The whistled language of ‘El Silbo’ dates back hundreds of years, way back […]
