4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2-DVD)
At what moment do we begin to live?
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 22, 2019
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasilu & Vlad Ivanov | |
Directed by | Cristian Mungiu | |
Screenwriting by | Cristian Mungiu | |
Produced by | Cristian Mungiu & Oleg Mutu | |
Director of Photography: | Oleg Mutu |
Major Awards:
Cannes 2007 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Regular spaces and regular interactions take on...a grave pressure cooker effect...the film nearly becomes unbearable as small actions, movements, looks, and utterances take on an affectation of desperation and the utmost importance.
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MUBI
Rating: A --
Observes with ruthless, artful precision. While plunging a knife through your soul.
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Detroit News
3.5 stars out of 4 -- The film takes place over 24 hours, and the sense of tension felt by the lead female characters is palpable....Powerful and gripping.
USA Today
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The film emerges as a devastating personal drama, a suspenseful horror story and a powerful statement about life under a repressive regime.
Seattle Times
[I]t conveys unblinking and despairing emotional truth with enough intensity to leave you gasping for air.
Los Angeles Times
Cristian Mungiu's unsentimental and unsparing film is profoundly feminist.
Film Comment
Rating: 4/4 --
A searing, unforgettable film that is a future classic of the New Romanian Cinema.
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From the Front Row
Product Description:
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.
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.
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