4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

2007 Drama

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 seedy Romanian hotel -- but Bebe refuses to accept money in return for his services and demands a certain "alternate" commodity instead.

Director: Cristian Mungiu

Starring: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alex Protcean, Luminita Gheorghiu

 40 Reviews  37 Awards

Reviews

  • It's a pitiless, violent story that in its telling becomes a haunting and haunted intellectual and aesthetic achievement.

    Manohla Dargis - The New York Times

    29 November 2012

  • This is a film with a commitment to reality unlike any we're used to seeing.

    Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times

    29 November 2012

  • This is a powerful film and a stark visual accomplishment, but no thanks to Gabita (Laura Vasiliu). The driving character is her roommate Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), who does all the heavy lifting.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    29 November 2012

  • 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.

    Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly

    29 November 2012

  • 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.

    Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

    29 November 2012

Awards

  • Best Foreign Film

    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina (2008)

  • Best Foreign Film, Not in the Spanish Language (Mejor Película Extranjera)

    Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards (2008)

     

  • Best Non-American Film (Bedste ikke-amerikanske film)

    Bodil Awards (2008)

     

  • Best Foreign Language Film

    Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards (2008)

     

  • Cristian Mungiu

    Cannes Film Festival (2007)

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