4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)

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Release Date: Jan 25, 2008

Running Time: 113 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue Romanian and English, subtitled English

Country Of Origin: Romania

starring:

Anamaria Marinca, Vlad Ivanov, Laura Vasiliu, Alexandru Potoceanu, Luminita Gheorghiu, Adrian Carauleanu, Liliana Mocanu, Tania Popa, Teo Corban, Cerasela Iosifescu

director:

Cristian Mungiu

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile]

Romania, during the final days of Communism. Otilia and Gabita are students; they share a room in a hall of residence in Bucharest. Gabita is pregnant. The girls arrange to meet a certain Mr. Bebe in a cheap hotel. He will perform Gabita's illegal abortion. But Mr. Bebe refuses their money and demands to be paid in kind.

Starkly, brutally honest, Cristian Mungiu's well-acted abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days paints a bleak picture of Romanian life in the late '80s.

Story

It's 1987 in Nicolae Ceausescu's totalitarian Romania. University student Gabriela (Laura Vasiliu) nervously packs for a trip of some kind, while her more practical roommate, Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), tends to various last-minute details. It gradually becomes clear that Otilia is helping her flightier friend arrange an illegal…

PETER TRAVERS - February 7, 2008

You just don't expect Hollywood to produce a masterwork so early in the new year. And it hasn't. This slice of celluloid dynamite comes from Romania, and what you see will floor you. Despite the title, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days speeds by in a single harrowing day. It grips you in a vise of suspense that Kiefer Sutherland couldn't hope to match on 24, even with that show's tricked-up editing. There are no tricks up the sleeve of writer-director Cristian Mungiu. Most of the time his camera…