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The friendship between two girls is tested to its absolute limits in this utterly compelling drama set in the twilight years of Communist-era Romania. Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), young and naïve, is pregnant. She turns to her more pragmatic room mate Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) for help and a meeting is arranged in a downtown hotel with the shady Mr Bebe (Vlad Ivanov). Entering a dangerous and illegal underworld where the stakes are high and nothing is as it seems, the girls are set for a life-changing experience that neither will ever forget. Brilliantly observed, superbly performed and directed with quite astonishing flair, this tense, poignant and provocative film has been hailed as a modern masterpiece. Extras: Interviews with director Cristian Mungiu & actress Anamaria Marinca / Theatrical Trailer / Filmographies
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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is not just the Romanian film on abortion.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is the story of two girls and their attempt to solve the problem of having an abortion in a totalitarian state where aborition was prohibited. The reason abortion was illegal, and people went to prison for attempting it, is because Ceausescu thought that Romania needed a bigger population because he gathered that a bigger population meant a more powerful state. Therefore, there was no contraception available and people had to make do with what they could.
Now, what 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days shows, in a shockingly honest way, is that humanity can endure even the most degrading and inhuman of situations. Ironically, what this film is about is survival. The girls simply need to get on with their lives and survive. And you, the viewer, will witness their every thought and emotion etched on their faces. You will witness their struggles and decision-making moments.
It's an inspiring piece, a visionary attempt. You cannot not be affected by watching it and hopefully, hopefully you will come out a better person for it.
Bogdan Tiganov - author of The Wooden Tongue Speaks- Romanians: Contradictions & Realities
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is the story of two girls and their attempt to solve the problem of having an abortion in a totalitarian state where aborition was prohibited. The reason abortion was illegal, and people went to prison for attempting it, is because Ceausescu thought that Romania needed a bigger population because he gathered that a bigger population meant a more powerful state. Therefore, there was no contraception available and people had to make do with what they could.
Now, what 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days shows, in a shockingly honest way, is that humanity can endure even the most degrading and inhuman of situations. Ironically, what this film is about is survival. The girls simply need to get on with their lives and survive. And you, the viewer, will witness their every thought and emotion etched on their faces. You will witness their struggles and decision-making moments.
It's an inspiring piece, a visionary attempt. You cannot not be affected by watching it and hopefully, hopefully you will come out a better person for it.
Bogdan Tiganov - author of The Wooden Tongue Speaks- Romanians: Contradictions & Realities
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
What I think this excellent film manages to achieve is to show that women who have to terminate their pregnancy (for whatever reason) but live in a society that prohibits abortion are forced to use potentially unsafe and traumatic medical procedures which could cause long term mental and/or physical ill health. Unlike Mike Leigh's likeable back street abortionist (Vera Drake), Mungiu offers the viewer a detestable character who exploits his power over the women he has offered to "help" and is highly aggressive and manipulative, culminating in appalling criminal behaviour. The film benefits from a brilliant screenplay that mercilessly evokes the stress and anxiety felt by the two women at the centre of the story. There is one fantastic scene (I think it's a continuous take) involving one of the women with her boyfriend at his mother's birthday dinner (the acting is of the highest quality). Overall this is a film that cleverly exposes the damaging effects of making abortion illegal but also the harrowing consequences of terminating a pregnancy.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a superb piece of work: grittily realistic; moody, naturalistic filming; excellent, believable acting, but, it's more a documentary about the horrors of "back-street" abortions, that is unremitting in its grimness. All against the back-drop of the difficulties of dealing with life in the aftermath of a totalitarion state. The film Vera Drake comes to mind as a comparison and, as a film, I'd rate the latter higher as it had more variety of emotion and the characters were more rounded.
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I found this film really sad, the setting is so bleak, I hope those days have gone forever.
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Published 3 months ago by Alan
A masterpiece!
I boutht this film with some reserve, but after reading other reviews I decide it to give it a try. I was totally mesmerized by the story and the performances. Read more
Published 15 months ago by boni girl
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A young student is unfortunately left with a pregnancy she cannot have; in a country where abortions are illegal. Read more
Published 23 months ago by words with wonder
A lesson in quality filmamking.
I bought this movie cause the critics here in the UK rated it well. I largely agree with them. Briefly, it wasn't until the end of the film and about an hour after watching it that... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mr. M. S. Krumstets
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This is beauty in simplicity. I love films that draw you into the time and place of its characters. Although this story isn't pleasant it is not morbid either. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Aftiti
"Rejecting life"
If you thought Vera Drake was hard to watch, then wait till you get a load of this... this Romanian drama starring Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu is a talky but incredibly... Read more
Published on 23 May 2010 by Master Ds Cholerton
Disturbing but compelling
The deal struck with the abortionist around which the film rotates might be a step too far - to avoid a spoiler I can't say more - but nonetheless everything else here convinces. Read more
Published on 18 May 2010 by Cakeman
A powerful film
A film noir, beautifully filmed. We found it gripping. See it if you haven't already.
Published on 31 Mar 2010 by Saul Rosenthal
Excellent, can't praise it enough
This is one of the best films I've ever seen, and probably the single most memorable. Nothing about it shouts, everything whispers but in the most subtle and beautiful way, despite... Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2010 by Love Books
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As several reviewers have commented, albeit in different words, the film is an intense depiction of the dilemmas that many women face, whether or not experienced in a totalitarian... Read more
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