Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0610883179801
Format: Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Genius Products Llc
Manufacturer: Genius Products Llc
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Genius Products Llc
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 95755
Studio: Genius Products Llc
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Rating:  - Sobbering, layered cinematic feat
Cristian Mungiu's film "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" is an awe-inspiring--if it can be called such--adventure. The director has such pointed and striking control over the picture that is difficult to imagine the film being better anchored by any other director. The tale is a two hour escape with two young women, Otilia and Gabita, as they traverse an antagonistic political climate that not-so-subtly rears its head in the most "modern" of our contemporary landscapes. The director avoids the didactic suggestions of other theme-driven tales by homing in on the singularity of the human moment. The film's script and acting performances shine due to their experiential nature; meanwhile, the auditory nuances are in perfect complement with the film's stark cinematography. Ultimately, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" is a landmark film, an undeniably powerful encounter with Romania's ominous history and our distance, though shared, existence with characters like Otilia and Gabita not so long ago.
Rating:  - Cinema Verité from Romania
4 MONTHS 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS ('4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile') is a powerful film that asks us to witness several horrors - Ceausescu's communist Romania in 1987, illegal abortion, and the extremes/abuses of friendship. Writer/director Cristian Mungiu captures one day in the lives of a few common people in Bucharest, lingering over each of the individuals just long enough to sense the terror of the moment, but continuing to move the pace of the story at a speed that capitalizes on the incidents in life that come just short of stopping the world for the people immediately involved. It is a very tough movie to watch but a uniquely fascinating work of art that deserves plaudits for the bravery of those who created it.
Without introduction the viewer is placed in a dormitory in Bucharest where two roommates - Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) and Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) seem preoccupied with an unidentified appointment. Through the rapid progress of the actions of Otilia we learn that Gabita is pregnant and in need of an abortion. Because she is young and single and afraid to make her condition known, Gabita convinces her closest friend Otilia to make all of the arrangements. Otilia finds a hotel room, engages the black market abortionist Bebe (Vlad Ivanov) to meet the two girls that evening in a sleazy hotel to perform the abortion. Bebe may be shady but he is up front with the girls, explaining that Gabita is too far along for a safe abortion, but with sufficient money he agrees to perform the ... Read More
Rating: - A powerhouse film that will shake you to your core...
It's taken a while for me to get comfortable with the idea of writing a review for this film, namely because the film has effected me to such an extreme that it's almost too painful to put into words. I have always had an emotional reaction to anything dealing with the death and or mistreatment of a child and I am extremely pro-life and highly against the act of abortion, so I knew going into this movie that I was going to be an emotional wreck. I actually expected to despise to film and or find immense fault with it.
I can't do that because there are no faults to be found.
`4 Luni, 3 Saptamani si 2 Zile' follows the efforts of two women to secure an illegal abortion in Romania during the 1980's. Our main focal point is Otilia, roommate to the pregnant Gabriela, as she finds Bebe, the man willing to perform the abortion; and thus begins their very long evening.
The film is marvelously shot in a manner that draws you into the lives of these two women. The camera slowly lags behind, allowing us to follow them as if we were an outsider peering into their world without their knowledge; allowing us to know them from a distance, seeing their true colors and not the façade they throw up in front of the ones they know and love. The rawness and grittiness of the film carries with it a sense of reality. What is so painful about `4 Luni, 3 Saptamani si 2 Zile' is that it feels as it this is a home video and this situation is not a fictional movie but real life. ... Read More
Rating: - A Beautiful Film with Emotional Depth.
Set in Bucharest, Romania in the final years of the Nicolae Ceausescu Communist regime, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile ) is a brilliant 2007 Romanian film that tells the emotionally-powerful story of a college student, Otilia Mihartescu (Anamaria Marinca), who struggles to help her roommate, Gabriela 'Gãbiþa' Dragut (Laura Vasiliu) obtain an illegal abortion. When Gabita discovers she is pregnant, the two young women arrange a meeting with Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov) in a hotel, where he is to perform an black market abortion. Most of the film depicts the obstacles Otilia and Gabita encounter over the course of 24 hours in arranging the abortion. (Spoiler Alert.) When Mr. Bebe discovers that Gabita has been pregnant for four months, three weeks, and two days, he unscrupulously demands sexual favors from both girls in exchange for the late-term abortion. The film ends in a conspiracy of silence, with the two friends agreeing they will never talk about the incident again. It is haunting to think that obtaining an illegal abortion was much the same in the U.S. until only a few years ago. Ironically, the film won three awards at the Cannes Film Festival including the highest award, the Palme d'Or, but was ignored by the Oscars. However, it was recognized by the National Society of Film Critics as the Best Foreign Language Film in 2007. Highly recommended, though not for the faint of heart, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is filmmaking at its best. This film establishes director ... Read More
Rating: - Devestatingly Good
Just watched this film last night via Netflix rental. Way better than I had expected. Shattering acting and terrific editing. If this film doesn't start conversations, nothing will.
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