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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Original title: 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 53m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
65K
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Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
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A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.

  • Director
    • Cristian Mungiu
  • Writer
    • Cristian Mungiu
  • Stars
    • Anamaria Marinca
    • Laura Vasiliu
    • Vlad Ivanov
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.9/10
    65K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Cristian Mungiu
    • Writer
      • Cristian Mungiu
    • Stars
      • Anamaria Marinca
      • Laura Vasiliu
      • Vlad Ivanov
    • 203User reviews
    • 121Critic reviews
    • 97Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 41 wins & 59 nominations total

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    Anamaria Marinca
    Anamaria Marinca
    • Otilia Mihartescu
    Laura Vasiliu
    Laura Vasiliu
    • Gabita Dragut
    Vlad Ivanov
    Vlad Ivanov
    • Viorel Bebe
    Alexandru Potocean
    Alexandru Potocean
    • Adi Radu
    • (as Alex Potocean)
    Luminita Gheorghiu
    Luminita Gheorghiu
    • Gina Radu
    Adi Carauleanu
    • Dr. Radu
    Liliana Mocanu
    • Unireal Hotel Receptionist
    Tania Popa
    • Night Receptionist
    Teodor Corban
    Teodor Corban
    • Unireal Hotel Receptionist
    • (as Teo Corban)
    Cerasela Iosifescu
    • Tineretului Hotel Receptionist
    Doru Ana
    Doru Ana
    • Benzanirul
    Eugenia Bosânceanu
    • Viorel Bebe's Mother
    Ion Sapdaru
    • Dr. Rusu
    • (as Ioan Sapdaru)
    Cristina Burbuz
    • Marie-Jeanne Rusu
    • (as Cristina Buburuz)
    Marioara Sterian
    • Adela Racoviceanu
    Emil Coseru
    • Dr. Racoviceanu
    Georgeta Paduraru Burdujan
    • Mrs. Aldea
    Geo Dobre
    • Dr. Aldea
    • Director
      • Cristian Mungiu
    • Writer
      • Cristian Mungiu
    • All cast & crew
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    User reviews203

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    9jo_kidsada

    Amazing & intelligent film

    I was fortunate to see this film during the TIFF last week. With Palm d'Or behind the title, my expectation was high and I was amazingly satisfied.

    As an audience in TIFF, we also got to have a Q&A session with Cristian, the director and it was apparent to me that he is a very intelligent man. Everything that was in the movie was well thought and planned. There is no accidents about this movie.

    There are quite a few unclear scenes. However after, the director answered a few questions for the audience and I got to understand his point of view. It was clear to me what he was trying to show us. There is no wasted scenes or filler during the whole show.

    There is a particular scene where many don't understand why it is so long and meaningless. Many viewers got frustrated, irritated and restless after a while. But that is exactly what the director wants us to feel. He plays with his audience through his film. What a brilliant idea ! For those who has seen it, will understand. Your feeling is exactly what Otilia was feelings.

    This is not an anti-abortion movie as the director said. There is no political statement. It is just a daily life of a few Romanians during the period and you can feel it through this movie.

    For all other foreign film fan, this is an absolute must see for this year.
    9loco_73

    Less is sometimes better...

    A visceral and emotionally draining experience. Those are not typical superlatives one usually conjures while commenting on a movie, yet in this case I dare use such a characterization as a positive rendering of what I felt when watching this film.

    The spartan and minimalist style of the movie only adds to its potency. Though many might find it jarring to sit through, I can only hope that people will have the patience and resolve to watch this brilliant example of movie making. If you invest your time and emotions in this one, you will not be disappointed.

    The acting, camera work, cinematography are of the highest quality, especially given the budgetary restrictions and scarcity of available resources.This movie is yet more ample proof that one does not necessarily need a 200 million dollar budget to make a great film. Creativity and originality can add untold dimensions to any physical limitations and barriers.

    All in all a great "little" movie about a forgotten slice of history, a little known place and, a time of horrifying brutality and oppression i.e. the so-called Golden Age (epoca de aur), Romania and Nicolae Ceausescu. This movie, "4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile/4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" is the first installment in a proposed trilogy entitled "Amintiri din epoca de aur/Tales From The Golden Age".

    I'm looking forward to the next chapters...
    9Michael Fargo

    Splendid performances in a taut, harrowing film

    Chritian Mungiu delivers one of the finer suspense films in the past few years. Set in Ceausescu's grim murderous police state, I was reminded of Polanski's shocker "Repulsion" albeit without the Gothic thrills. It's a loaded subject matter of abortion that sets the scene, but we aren't asked to take sides in someones polemic. The nightmare that unfolds is probably played out often, and that's the movie's genius. We identify quickly with the dilemma even though the bureaucratic maze the characters have to bribe and finagle there way through is in extreme.

    The smallest details are accurate and riveting, from the possibly dire consequences of not paying a bus fare to eavesdropping on a conversation between a mother and her son that's suddenly interrupted by the sound of gun shot, the protagonist here (and what a courageous beauty she turns out to be) has nerves of steel that any action hero would envy.

    It's our loss that this may be the only time we get to see Anamarie Marinca perform. She's nearly in every shot in the film and her unsteady conviction to her friend who is seeking an abortion is mesmerizing to watch. Her foil, Laura Vasiliu, is maddeningly dense and just as effective as the girl who's so lost in her dilemma that you can't tell if her judgment is impaired by her predicament or she's simple-minded. It's a touching performance that's also infuriating because of the dangers she sets in motion all around her.

    The mise en scene here is one of a master. Midway through the film, there's a stunning set piece where Marinca and her boyfriend are full screen at a party, the camera never moves and they don't speak a word while adults chatter all around them while only occasionally hands enter the frame. The tension that results is almost unbearable when a telephone rings off in the distance, and Marinca is unable to move to find out if it's a desperate call for help...or simply someone calling to wish Happy Birthday.

    There are many, many such fine moments in this movie. It shows that horror isn't necessarily the boogie man or a creature from outer space. It can be of our own making, both individually and by the government that rules us.
    8gsygsy

    don't miss it

    Excellent, engrossing movie. Shot, as far as I could tell, with one skillfully deployed camera, every composition had to have that camera perfectly placed. It's no mean achievement to have risen to this challenge so well. There's one scene in particular, set at a birthday dinner, which is breathtakingly well done with the camera static and the actors brilliantly positioned around it, managing in spite of this limitation to not only give all the necessary information, but also to do so with the maximum emotional intensity.

    The subject matter doesn't make for comfortable viewing. But it is essential to engage with it. This film tackles it head on. Don't miss it.
    8hanzy_boy

    Rich in details

    I'm in awe with 'realist' films, especially the one that actually works such as this one. In the climax track shot of walking through the city at night, how do they stage all the noise, the dog, the cars, the everything? It's crazy that i'm super impressed by how organic and realistic it is. Which is odd, because usually i go to movies to see how clever a filmmaker can be with twisting reality. But this was clearly magic to have been able to present a simple act (walking) in a simple composition (face dead center), with all of the familiar elements of nighttime in the city, and brought it all together to heighten the experience of this girl carrying what it seems like, all the worry in the world. It brought me back an almost childish/immediate feeling of being afraid walking alone at night, but of course compared to film, i've never walked alone at night with that much at stake.

    But this is where the movie is most successful, the film presents you with people living in a type of harsh system that i can't imagine here living in the states. But the feelings and emotions that are portrayed are universal, the feeling of being young and afraid, feeling of sneaking behind the law, risking something for your friend , feeling of regret. And in this film the moral compass is clear, they know the system is unjust and they do things out of love and care for one another.

    But for us here in the states, where government and law has seeped itself into everything, where we don't sometimes realized our own systematic oppression, how much of our sense of right/wrong is driven by government and the law? how much of it is actually driven by love and passion for real people?

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    • Trivia
      At the beginning of the film, the students buy cigarettes, soap, and birth control pills on the black market. In 1967, in an effort to increase the dwindling population, the Romanian government issued Decree 770, which banned contraceptives as well as abortion.
    • Goofs
      When at the dinner table, Adi's mother claims to have gotten blue Easter eggs by mixing yellow dye with green dye. Blue is a primary color and cannot be obtained from mixing any other colors. (Green, however, can be obtained by mixing blue and yellow.)
    • Quotes

      Otilia: [subtitled version] We're never going to talk about this, okay?

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Best of 2007 (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Fata din vis
      Music and lyrics by Paul Ciuci

      Performed by Compact

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    • Release date
      • September 14, 2007 (Romania)
    • Countries of origin
      • Romania
      • Netherlands
    • Language
      • Romanian
    • Also known as
      • 4 Tháng, 3 Tuần và 2 Ngày
    • Filming locations
      • Ploiesti, Romania
    • Production companies
      • Mobra Films
      • Centrul National al Cinematografiei (CNC)
      • Mindshare Media
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €590,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,198,208
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $51,712
      • Jan 27, 2008
    • Gross worldwide
      • $10,174,839
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      • 1h 53m(113 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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