UNFORGETTABLE ROMANIAN DESTROYER

Modern day Romanian cinema specializes in gritty and dark presentations of contemporary Romanian society in social and economic transition.

Much acclaimed ’’4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days’’ deals with the very ending of Nicolae Chaushesku’s reign of tyranny, setting the story about two young college girls trying to perform an (then) illegal abortion in a small city in the Romanian countryside.

Graphic presentation of poverty, corruption and overall sense of filth and hopelessness will be just devastating, as the depiction medical procedure. That sense will be especially emphasized with fanatically consistent directing of Cristian Mungiu, terrorizing the viewer with his long cuts, silence between the actors and the claustrophobic inconvenience overpowering the female lead (fantastic Anamaria Marinca) and supporting character.

But Mungiu won’t stop there with the creation of ’’just’’ another brutal European drama. He will dissect the entire Romanian society and as any great socially active man of art, shed the light on every single aspect of the question of woman rights, abortion and sexual education of young people. Closure of the movie will be as brutal and sudden as the whole flick, leaving the viewer to digest what he/she just saw and try to get some lessons from the film.

’’4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days’’ is a must see movie for women, especially those who claim to be fighting for their rights, since it is a true, down to Earth film that deals with real problems and opens some of the most significant social themes of the modern society.


4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS – 8/10


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