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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
synopsis
During the final days of communism in Romania, two college roommates, Otilia and Gabita, are busy preparing for a night away. But, rather than planning for a holiday, they are making arrangements for Gabita's illegal abortion and unwittingly, both find themselves burrowing deep down a rabbit hole of unexpected revelations.
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Domnu Bebe
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Doamna Radu
Detective Radu
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reviews
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
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
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