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  • 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 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

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  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    75
    Pape Sidy Niang is terrific as the cop, Z, who is viewing America through a new immigrant's eyes.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Rob Nelson
    70
    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.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    60
    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.

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