4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile) Critic Reviews
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Anamaria Marinca delivers an utterly transfixing performance as Otilia, a young woman who helps a friend (Laura Vasiliu) obtain an illegal abortion in the waning days of Romania's communist Ceausescu regime.Read the full review
Depressing and gut-wrenching, but always powerful and gripping.Read the full review
A beautiful and formally compelling work of art.Read the full review
Despite being slow and deliberate, it is often compelling and occasionally riveting. As "The Lives of Others" was in 2007, this is the first memorable movie of 2008.Read the full review
Pitch perfect and brilliantly acted, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days is a stunning achievement, helmed with a purity and honesty that captures not just the illegal abortion story at its core but the constant, unremarked negotiations necessary for survival in the final days of the Soviet bloc.Read the full review
Elegantly crafted, brilliantly acted film.Read the full review
This is a film with a commitment to reality unlike any we're used to seeing.Read the full review
Nothing good happens in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the riveting, horrifying chronicle of an illegal abortion performed in 1987 when Ceauescu's dictatorial hand still gripped Romania's throat. And yet no lover of greatness in filmmaking will want to look away from one of the very best movies of 2007.Read the full review
It’s a pitiless, violent story that in its telling becomes a haunting and haunted intellectual and aesthetic achievement.Read the full review
First, this movie should be enjoyed. Later, marveled at. And then, once the excitement has faded, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days really should be studied, because director Cristian Mungiu creates scenes unlike any ever filmed.Read the full review
