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Mood:
- BleakDisturbingGloomyCaptivating
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Plot:
- Innocence LostFriendshipSexual AbusePregnancyLife is a BitchMind and SoulSocietyFriends more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeignRealismPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century80s
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Place:
- EuropeRomaniaHotelUrban
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- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedMasterpieceCannes Festival WinnerPrestigious Awards
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Flag:
- Brief Nudity
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, 2007
Romanian
Romania
Profile of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days can be described as disturbing, bleak, and gloomy. The plot revolves around sexual abuse, pregnancy, and . The main genres are drama, foreign, and period. In terms of style, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days features realism. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is set, at least in part, in a hotel and in an urban environment. It is located in Romania. It takes place in the 1980s. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days has received attention for being a Cannes festival winner, a masterpiece, and critically acclaimed. Note that it involves brief nudity.
Summary of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
On the heels of Cristi Puiu's brilliant THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU comes another outstanding picture, 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, which firmly establishes Romania as a major force in early 21st-century world cinema. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Cristian Mungiu's excruciatingly intense drama is set in Bucharest in the mid-1980s, as Nicolae Ceaucescu and his evil dictatorship continue to reign. In a country where abortion is outlawed, a young college student, Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), finds herself in big trouble. Unsure what to do, she turns to her roommate, Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), for help. On the day on which the film takes place, the pair connects with a black market doctor, Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), in order to take care of Gabita's pregnancy--but, of course, it isn't that simple. The resulting 24 hours reveals a harrowing descent into a world in which the possibility of tragedy lurks around every corner.
Mungiu's decision to film every scene in a hyper-documentary style, with long, unbroken takes (by co-producer Oleg Mutu), ratchets up the tension to nearly unbearable proportions. Adding even greater drama is his decision to focus on the friend, not the victim. Marinca's face, filmed in unflinching close-ups, expresses the impossibly complex flood of emotions that nag her throughout the day. The film's true revelation, however, is Ivanov, whose portrayal of the shady doctor is an absolute tour-de-force. 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS is filmmaking at its most masterly.
Details
| Language: | Romanian |
| Country: | Romania |
| Release date: | 29 September 2007 |
| Runtime: | 113 min |
| Awards: | Cannes |
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as Otilia
as Viarel aka Domnu' Bebe
as Gabriela 'Gabita' Dragut
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
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- by: Richard Corliss
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