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Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: LANGUAGES: Romanian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: In 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a ferocious, unsentimental, often brilliantly directed film about a young woman who helps a friend secure an abortion, the camera doesn't follow the action, it expresses consciousness itself. This consciousness - alert to the world and insistently alive - is embodied by a young university student who, one wintry day in the late 1980s, helps her roommate with an abortion in Ceausescu's Romania when such procedures were illegal, not uncommon and too often fatal. It's a pitiless, violent story that in its telling becomes a haunting and haunted intellectual and aesthetic achievement. '4 Months' deserves to be seen by the largest audience possible, partly because it offers a welcome alternative to the coy, trivializing attitude toward abortion now in vogue in American fiction films, but largely because it marks the emergence of an important new talent in the Romanian writer and director Cristian Mungiu.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, Ceasar Awards, European Film Awards, Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Golden Globes, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Stockholm Film Festival, ...4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days ( 4 luni, 3 saptamāni si 2 zile ) ( Four Months, Three Weeks & Two Days )
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, Ceasar Awards, European Film Awards, Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Golden Globes, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Stockholm Film Festival, ...4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days ( 4 luni, 3 saptamāni si 2 zile ) ( Four Months, Three Weeks & Two Days )
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51 of 52 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
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Room For A View
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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
By Bluebell
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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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Depressingly magnificent.
This award-winning 2007 film from Romania, is set twenty years earlier, during the oppressive Communist regime of Ceausescu. Read more
Published 24 days ago by Mr. P. Johnson
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A genius at work
This is a five star movie. Yesterday I saw an item on Sky News about the coming release on DVD of Cristian Mungiu's 2012 film Beyond the Hills. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Prof JPL Reinecke
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A grim, but gripping film. Very interesting to see how the country once looked. A very good interpretation in my eyes. Read more
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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 14 months ago by Alan
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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 on 13 Feb 2011 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 on 29 Jun 2010 by words with wonder
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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 on 19 Jun 2010 by Mr. M. S. Krumstets
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sweetabix
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 on 14 Jun 2010 by Aftiti
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"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
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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 Cake
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