With anamaria marinca, laura vasiliu, vlad ivanov, alexandru potocean. A film essay on 4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days which. Apr 14, 2015 anamaria marinca and laura vasiliu in 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days a contemporary thriller which has the ability to actually thrill is, quite astonishingly, a depressing rarity. In 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days it is an underground realm marked by perverse rules, where bebe is a law outside the law, meting out his own capricious punishments.
Cristian mungius 4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days provide just that. How far would you go for a friend gabita is pregnant, abortion is strictly forbidden in romania during the communist regime. Rodney dangerfield at his best on the tonight show starring johnny carson 1983 duration. The essay was slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. But although otilias ordeal demands the patience of a kafka protagonist, it cannot be seen as in any way allegorical. Mar 22, 20 perhaps 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days ends up making a statement about gender and patriarchy without aiming to do so. Winner of the 2007 palme dor, the film follows the lives of two college roommates as one attempts to help the other obtain an illegal abortion in communist romania. From minimalist representation to excessive interpretation. Months, 3 weeks and 2 days is a 2007 romanian art film with drama and thriller elements, written and directed by cristian mungiu and starring anamaria. Mesek az aranykorbol, a romaniai kommunizmus szubjektiv tortenete, a varosi legendak fenyeben. In the last days of communism in romania, a college student wants to end her unplanned pregnancy, but abortion is illegal under the ceausescu. Other romanian films that have been a part of this movement include 12.
A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s romania. The movie follows her and her friend otilia during the day she has made the appointment with mr. As i was coming out of a screening of 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, as shaken up by the experience as i imagine everyone who has seen the film must be, i accidentally fell into step behind a couple she in her 20s or early 30s, he considerably older, both elegantly dressed who were making their reaction to what they had seen a matter for public remark. The surprise winner of the palme dor at last years cannes film festival, this extraordinary portrait of illegal abortion in eighties. Tales from the golden age a subjective history of communism in romania told through its urban legends. Director cristian mungius drama 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days unfolds in romania in the late 80s, during the last waning days of communist rule. If funding is not immediately forthcoming for mungius next feature and if anamaria marinca doesnt become one of the most sought after actresses in. Romania still cringes under the brainless rule of ceausescu. Despite this it is common practice and gabita wants an abortion.
Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion. She turns in desperation to her roommate otilia, who agrees to help her, and. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Mckenzie townsend, anke sabrina beermann dpsoundpost. Jan 25, 2008 in 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, a ferocious, unsentimental, often brilliantly directed film about a young woman who helps a friend secure an abortion, the camera doesnt follow the action. It might not send you out dancing, but this bleak romanian drama will draw you in with its. Find out where 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days is streaming, if 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. It tells the story of two students, roommates in a university dormitory, who try to procure an illegal abortion. May 31, 2015 a 1,290word film essay which analyzed the subjection and individual freedom of the female characters in the film 4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days. The independent of foreign films discussions group talkaboutfilms talks about. Winner of the prestigious palme dor at the 2007 cannes film festival, the movie is all the more brutally effective because it is so straightforward in its presentation, chronicling a day in the life of two young women caught.
A 4 honap, 3 het, 2 nap egy nagyobb projekt resze, melynek cime. A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal. The top award, the palme dor, went to cristian mungiu for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, an unsparing yet humane look at life during the dictatorship of nicolae ceausescu. Mar 02, 2008 4 months 3 weeks 2 days movie trailer. Bucharest 2006 and 4 months, which won the palme dor at cannes 2007, upsetting a. Romanian filmmaker cristian mungiu shot to international prominence with this rigorously realistic palme dorwinning second feature. There may not be enough films yet to constitute a trend, but the recent flowering of romanian cinemacourtesy of the coalblack comedies the death of mr. In cristian mungius 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, gabita desires an abortion, which was then illegal, not for moral reasons, but. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. All images and subtitles are ed to their respectful owners unless stated otherwise.
Lazarescu, this harrowing palme dor winner from cristian mungiu may be the defining film of the romanian new wave nailbiting and suspenseful, 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days is a stirring sociorealist thriller, led by the exceptional anamaria marin. A projekt celja, hogy a kommunizmus temajanak kozvetlen erintese nelkul, pusztan az egyeni lehetosegeken keresztul lattassa ezt a balsors sujtotta. Anamaria marinca and laura vasiliu play, respectively, otilia and gabita, two female friends and students who share a bucharest flat. National catholic register in a key scene of romanian writerdirector cristian mungius 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, gabita dragut laura vasiliu and her college roommate and friend otilia anamaria marinca agree never again to discuss the horrific events of that day. The projects aim is to talk about that period with no direct reference to communism but only through different stories focused on personal options in a time of misfortunes that. In 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, a ferocious, unsentimental, often brilliantly directed film, the camera doesnt follow the action, it expresses consciousness itself. Its deeper observations about the oppression of women are, however, doomed to be drowned in debate on prochoice vs. Four months, three weeks and two days film the guardian. In cristian mungius 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, gabita desires an abortion, which was then illegal, not for moral reasons, but because ceausescu wanted more subjects to rule.