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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

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Average Rating: 8.3/10
Reviews Counted: 133
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Featuring gut-wrenching performances from Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu, 4 Months is a gripping portrayal of life in Communist Romania.

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Featuring gut-wrenching performances from Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu, 4 Months is a gripping portrayal of life in Communist Romania.

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Director Cristian Mungiu's drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days unfolds in Romania in the late '80s, during the last waning days of Communist rule. Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu play, respectively, Otilia and Gabita, two female friends and students who share a Bucharest flat. They soon find themselves saddled with an overwhelming problem: Gabita is expecting. With abortion illegal in Romania at that time, the women seek an illicit termination at the hands of one Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov) in a

R, 1 hr. 53 min.

Drama

Directed By: Cristian Mungiu

Written By: Cristian Mungiu

In Theaters: May 17, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Jun 17, 2008

Box Office:$0.9M

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Critic Reviews for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

All Critics (136) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (131) | Rotten (6) | DVD (6)

Cristian Mungiu's masterful chronicle is impressive above all for the way it respects the audience, expecting them to follow the implications of its multifaceted tale without always spelling them out.

February 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

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A brilliant and discomfiting film.

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Colin Covert

Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Proceeding with a blunt and sometimes brutal relentlessness, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days impresses and engrosses as a work of stark, spare naturalism.

February 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle

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Joe Leydon

Houston Chronicle

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Observes with ruthless, artful precision. While plunging a knife through your soul.

February 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Detroit News

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Tom Long

Detroit News

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A powerful film and a stark visual accomplishment.

February 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

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This is a beautiful film about ugly circumstances, set in 1987 near the end of the Ceausescu era in communist Romania.

February 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

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This wrenching moral and social portrait of loss and violation represents another highlight of the New Romanian Cinema.

November 7, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

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How it makes you feel depends little, if at all, about your position on abortion. The procedure acts as a MacGuffin for caustic commentary about Communist clampdowns and a friendship's annihilative death spiral through loyalty, desperation and sacrifice.

September 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com

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Nick Rogers

Suite101.com

No one in Bucharest gives a damn about anything. And he takes 113 long, drawn-out minutes to send this bit of news.

August 11, 2010 Full Review Source: East Bay Express

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Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

Unrelieved gloom

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Director Cristian Mungiu makes effective use of fairly static camera setups, in addition to some hand-held shots, to give the film a documentary feel.

March 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope

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Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

Extremely powerful story about women dealing with illegal abortion issues in Stalinist Romania, but it is not a simple propaganda movie. In fact, it is a sublime if deeply troubling work of art.

March 4, 2009 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews

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Louis Proyect

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For people who take their movies seriously, a quick course in Romanian might now be necessary -- and so is a trip to the theater to see 4 Months.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Nation

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Stuart Klawans

Nation

Grippingly horrible.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

This is an unsettling film, brilliantly acted all around, most especially by Vasiliu and Marinca.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan

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Jean Lowerison

San Diego Metropolitan

[A] brilliant, suspenseful, absolutely riveting film.

October 18, 2008 Comment

Rene Rodriguez

Miami Herald

A relentlessly-depressing, slice-of-life drama which, perhaps a little too convincingly, palpably conveys the harrowing ordeal of a female desperate for an abortion in a country where the practice has been outlawed.

October 10, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze

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Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

Better viewed as an illustration of the extreme dynamics of a friendship of personality contrasts than as a movie about illegal abortion or oppressive Communist regimes.

October 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies

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Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

A stark, thought-provoking and disturbing insight into the harsh reality of life under the Ceausescu regime.

September 2, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com

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Heather Huntington

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While other films may be just as engaging due to wit or sheer spectacle, few have ever been as affecting on an emotional level.

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Paste Magazine

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Sean Gandert

Paste Magazine

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A good, realistic movie that, for my money, is a bit over-rated, and one that takes a long time to get you into the story. It's clinical for the first half-hour or more, but eventually, the stakes do rise, and through one gut-wrenchingly long dinner scene, you start to feel the urgency of the whole affair: Gabi needs

January 28, 2008

Daniel Perry

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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 days really reels you in with it's hypnotic voyeurism. It's brutal realism is uncomfortable viewing at times but is utterly captivating throughout. The long takes only emphasises how great the acting is, particularly from Anamaria Marinca in the lead role. The hotel scene is uncompromising,

May 4, 2011

Anthony Lawrie

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