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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile

Romania

2007

113 Min
Color
1.85:1
Romanian
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DIR Cristian Mungiu

PROD Cristian Mungiu, Oleg Mutu, Daniel Burlac

SCR Cristian Mungiu

DP Oleg Mutu

CAST Anamaria Marinca, Vlad Ivanov, Laura Vasiliu, Alexandru Potocean, Luminiţa Gheorghiu, Ion Sapdaru, Mădălina Ghiţescu, Teodor Corban, Tania Popa, Cerasela Iosifescu, Doru Ana, Eugenia Bosânceanu, Marioara Sterian

ED Dana Bunescu

PROD DES Mihaela Poenaru

SOUND Constantin Fleancu, Dana Bunescu

Cannes (In Competition): Palme d'Or, FIPRESCI Prize, Toronto (Special Presentations), San Sebastián (Zabaltegi-Pearls): FIPRESCI Film of the Year, Telluride, London (Gala), New York, AFI FEST (World Cinema), Stockholm (Competition): Bronze Horse, Best Actress, Transilvania, Karlovy Vary (Open Eyes), Vancouver (Special Presentations), Chicago (Competition)

Synopsis

Romania, during the final days of Communism. Otilia and Gabita are students; they share a room in a hall of residence in Bucharest. Gabita is pregnant. The girls arrange to meet a certain Mr. Bebe in a cheap hotel. He will perform Gabita’s illegal abortion. But Mr. Bebe refuses their money and demands to be paid in kind. –Cannes FIlm Festival

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Cristian Mungiu

Cristian Mungiu (b. 1968, Iaşi) is a Romanian filmmaker, winner of the Palme d’Or in 2007.
After studying English literature at the University of Iaşi, he worked for a few years as a teacher and as a journalist. After that, he enrolled at the University of Film in Bucharest to study film directing. After graduating in 1998, Mungiu made several short films. In 2002, he debuted with his first feature film, Occident. Occident enjoyed critical success, winning prizes in several film festivals and being featured in Director’s Fortnight at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2007 Mungiu wrote and directed his second feature, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The film was received enthusiastically, attracting critical praise and being selected in the official competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, where it eventually won the coveted Palme d’Or for feature film, marking the first time that prize was awarded to a Romanian filmmaker.

Mungiu has said that early Miloš Forman… read more

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Caro_its

31Mar13

Dark and very painful, this movie gave me gooseflesh.

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João Pedro Tomás

30Mar13

Meh. Too long, some scenes don't fit well with what the film promised to be. Shattered and imperfect characters, mostly like human ruins, with unnatural errors, made by someone who seemed afraid to be more subjective. If you're going to film an abortion you shan't leave the camera still while the character keeps on walking forward. A good filmmaker must believe in what he films, not just filming for the sake of it...

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Anaís

19Mar13

Me encantó. Una maravilla.

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21Jan13

An insolent mess of unresearched detail and sloppy directing, sold and bought as a 'revelatory' period piece, in trendy minimalist emperor's clothes. The most undeservedly praised item in the whole new Romanian catalogue.

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Romanian Orthodox: Cristian Mungiu's "Beyond the Hills"

By Michael Nordine on March 9, 2013

Cristian Mungiu’s film is a gorgeously austere and often exhilarating in its its slow-burning atmosphere of dread and sorrow.

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The Auteurs Daily: NYFF. Police, Adjective

By David Hudson on September 29, 2009

"Less is more in the sophomore feature by Cannes Camera d'or winner Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), a filmmaker attentive

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The Notebook's First Annual Writers' Poll: 2008 Top Ten

By Daniel Kasman on January 8, 2009

Each of the Notebook's writers were given the opportunity to submit their ten favorite films of 2008 given at least a week's theatrical run

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UNTITLED

By Cody Hoskins on March 7, 2013

Whether you are pro-choice or pro-life is your own business, but what this film is confronting is neither a justification or a judgement about the topic when it’s true heart is delving into the emotional…  read review

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

By Jye Sherwel​l on March 18, 2010

I make no secret of my stance when it comes to this subject. I’m extremely against it.

However there’s no doubting it makes for gripping cinema.

Nice characters. In fact I thought all…  read review

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

By Jon on December 26, 2009

A haunted and paranoid mood piece scored to the deadening static of silence, interspersed with stifled cries of desperation and candid misery spread out over inert frames. The ambient, stagnant panic…  read review

Untitled

By Edwin N on October 16, 2009

4 Months , 3 Weeks and 2 Days achieves its goal in one particular scene: The scene where Mungiu decides to show the foetus.I’m sure it changed a whole lot of perspectives, including mine.It’s power…  read review

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