Police Beat

Have you ever waited for your boy/girl friend to call you? Have you ever made up bizzare scenarios in your head for him/her not calling? If the answer is yes then this film is made just for you.

Z (Pape Sidy Niang) is an Senegalese immigrant who works as a bicycle beat cop in suburbia. As he looks on at a crime scene of a dead man's body washed up on a beach, the image that run through his mind is that of his girlfriend telling him that she is off camping with her room mate, Jeff. He bikes around his beat drifting through quirky and funny crime scenes all the while having an inner monologue in Wolof about his girl friend. A superbly scripted and orey funny film that captures a myriad of emotions in a short span.

Rating: * * *