In just his second feature film, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu wasn't shy about tackling a challenge.
While the idea and process of the abortion itself is the driving force of the movie, as cliche as it may sound, it's not what the movie is really 'about'.
Set in 1987 at the tail end of the Ceausescu dictatorship in Romania, "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days" concerns a young woman seeking an abortion in an authoritarian state that has all but outlawed the procedure. As if the basic subject wasn't thorny enough, writer/director Mungiu also chose to make the young woman rather difficult to like, or at least difficult to fully sympathize with. Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) is passive, forgetful, flighty, and relies almost entirely on her friend Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) to negotiate all of the details of a complex (and illegal) deal. Safe in the security of being the "unreliable one" in the relationship, Gabi exploits Otilia's courage and conscientiousness, with harrowing repercussions for both of them.
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean, Luminita Gheorghiu
Country: Romania, Belgium
Genre: Drama
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