4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
A drama set in Bucharest during the "golden" years of Communism, about the horrors of the Securitate, and the brutality and absurdness of its methods used. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Cristian Mungiu
Written By: Cristian Mungiu, Razvan Radulescu
Starring: Anamaria Marinca, Vlad Ivanov, Luminita Gheorghiu, Alexandru Potocean, Teodor Corban, Doru Ana, Ion Sapdaru, Tania Popa, Liliana Mocanu, Cerasela Iosifescu, Laura Vasiliu, Adi Carauleanu
Genre: Drama
AKA: 4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile
Country: Romania
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| 6 | Giuseppe | 64 21st |
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Why so many people love this movie, I'll never understand. To me this is just an exploitation film (and I do use the term loosely) that plays on the sensitivities of mostly foreign movie 'connoisseurs' that think sordid, bleak stories set in unfamiliar, but 'harshly realistic' locations is somehow synonymous with great cinematography. It's not 'realism' and it's not great, it's just giving your audience what they expect and want to see. I ain't jumping on this bandwagon.
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th_mertens | 61 30th |
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With the hyperrealisme-genre it's sometimes possible that the photography isn't in balance with the plot/story. And 4/3/2 is also a victim om that fault. The photography is genuine, a punch in the face of communist rumania and just beautiful in every detail. But the plot is too small and too thin to fill an entire 113min. Some scenes are, even for this genre, too long. After a while you get the message of streching a scene just a bit longer as usual. In my opinion not a worthy Cannes laureate
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Moribunny | 95 98th |
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is horrific, nerve-wracking, harrowing, but beautifully resists the temptation to cross over to sensationalistic or gratuitously tragic. It raises a myriad of difficult moral, social and political questions, but never pretends to solve them. Its power lies in the script's positively exceptional naturalism. It never once tries to ethically "guide" you out of the awful predicament it portrays, not even a nudge. It just leaves you drained and outraged.
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| 3 | Skenkere | 82 88th |
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Intense and uncompromising. Harsh realism without any type of sugarcoating. The subject matter is unsettling to start with, and the way its so blunt with it just makes it harder to stomach. Theres no music to set a mood, no quick camera cuts, the tension is derived completely from the situation, the dialogue and the acting. In fact, the camera keeps the same shots for a long time throughout the movie. Not exactly fun to watch but impossible to take your eyes off of.
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KMcNeil | 9 94th |
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It's all in the details. It's all in the meticulously framed long takes - the tableau style - that really show the pain, uncertainty and despondency of the hopelessly absurd, the downright impossible situation that these two women, as well as the society as a whole, find themselves in. At once artfully poetic and emotionally raw.
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Judge Holden | 9 98th |
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A film as oppressive as the society it condemns. Deeply upsetting but never manipulative or overwrought. The horrific situation is presented realistically; it doesn't preach and it never simplifies. Instead, it opts to analyze its complex themes with subtlety and intelligence. Adding to the film's power are some outstanding, naturalistic performances and a number of unbearably distressing tracking shots and long takes. It's amazing. Probably the greatest film of the decade.
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FrederikA | 90 96th |
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Bleak, slow-paced and dealing with illegal abortions, this could easily have been yet another "I can't believe how horrible (and brown) life was behind the iron curtain" movie, but it is so well written, directed and acted that the human drama remains in the center and stays both relevant, moving and particularly gripping as the heroine proves, that she is the best friend in the world...
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MartinTeller | 85 84th |
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An extremely tense story. The film is really gripping, with a sense of dread around every corner, helped by the minimalist style. The cinematography is mostly handheld, documentary-style, and there's no music whatsoever, all of which puts you right in the moment with the feeling the anything can happen, and the worst probably will. Stark and unsettling.
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Derekstar | 90 85th |
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Second time watching this, and it's damned good. The dinner scene still stands out as the best part of the film. The boyfriend's parents and their friends are talking about how tough it was in the old days, and segue seamlessly into talking about how much milk they put in their mashed potatoes. It's so good, and it makes me want to scream. There's something resonant there about the well-to-do middle class just dismissing real poverty and real systemic squalor by exclaiming "kids these days!"
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rob | 14 75th |
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Christ, what an unremittingly, relentlessly bleak experience. A story that really needs to be told---Ceausescu's ultra-natalist policies were an abomination---and a story well told, but not one I can imagine wanting to sit through again. It's every bit as agonizing as I'm sure it was designed to be.
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caiman | 89 89th |
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Shot with lengthy, unflinching camera shots, watching this made me feel as if I was witnessing the events directly, rather than through a movie. And that's exactly what makes it so effective: we are seeing an event that seems so un-fabricated (due also in part to the great acting) that it conjures deep feelings with very little provocation. The events in this film happen ALL THE TIME in this world, but sometimes it takes actually seeing them for them to seem as sickening as they should.
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Dean Franz | 78 75th |
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And now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go kill myself.
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QuickyAPI | 69 58th |
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Hmm... not as good as I had hoped. It's good to learn about the treatment of women in Eastern Europe, but the movie doesn't 'flow'. It seems too slow and too empty.
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Actionberg | 85 84th |
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It's one thing to read about the history of the abominable Ceausescu era of Romania; it's another thing to have those horrors manifested in a powerful work of cinéma vérité. As small as its story is, the setting is fully realized in every facet, from the harrowing oppression by bureaucracy to class struggle; everything adds up to a sum of pure desperation. Even with its impressive master shots, the flow is never halted with aims for awe; as trite as I feel it is to say, this film feels real.
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Pickpocket | 1 12th |
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Popped my Romanian film cherry today, I've had better. The acting is so staged and stilted it totally takes you out of the film. We get it, you went to acting school. Also, I thought the abortionists motivations for doing the abortion was a wild stretch. A possible 10 years in prison to bang a stranger? lol. But it has a touchy subject and is about communism and it shows a dead fetus so you have to say you like it despite it being a boring pretentious piece of shit. HORRIBLE ending
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aethewulf | 90 95th |
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Uber.
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parcaliham | 100 99th |
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19 Ekim 07 - Halam ile Filmekimi07 saat: 21:30 & 22 mart 08'deyiz ve hala arada bir kafam filme gidiyor, depresiflesiyorum.kesinlikle mukemmel bir film.
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Stain | 50 33rd |
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A personal-yet-universal and even lurid story rendered, quite honestly, rather tedious by the time- and money-saving long takes that are the curse of small movies
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Shmendrek | 3 61st |
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Difficult film to watch. I guess it about sums up everything wrong with Romania during this period.
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Icarus | 90 88th |
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Excellent use of the camera throughout. Mingiu's refusal to cut away at various points, instead either following or keeping the camera focused on his principles, really serves to build the tension and dread effectively. We cannot help but feel what a terrible situation these girls find themselves in.
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Optimus_mike | 85 80th |
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Very very emotional and hard to watch.
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Bown | 84 72nd |
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Really, really tense and unnerving. Cheery stuff.
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mwgerb | 76 92nd |
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A bleak, unadorned drama, which is exactly what the story needed.
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ehk2 | 23 29th |
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this is not about communism or real socialism in Romania. It's about abortion, nothing more!
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| 1 | damil | 75 81st |
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It was a subtle yet quite powerful film. The film used lots of long shots, spanning several minutes. Luckily, the actors and the script were up to this challenge. I thought it was really good overall. It had a really hyper-real feel to it, which I liked a lot. Recommended.
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saudade | 55 71st |
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This reminds me of that episode of Full House when Danny wont let Stephanie pierce her ears, so she has to go to Kimmy in secret, and Kimmy demands sex from Stephanie and D.J. as payment.
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loc42 | 35 16th |
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you can tell a story realistically but as long as the acts and decisions of your characters are unnecessarily unreasonable, it doesn't seem "real"
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SanderAP | 90 83rd |
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)-:
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hotsake | 76 86th |
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Extremely well acted and quite disturbing. The acting was great and the dialogue was very naturalistic without seeming to be pretentious. I honestly felt bad for Otilia especially given how uncaring and unthankful Gabita was about the whole thing.
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lex | 90 80th |
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A relentlessly bleak film of bleakness. You'll have just about as much fun shooting yourself in the foot. That being said, it is spectacularly filmed and does a fascinating job of depicting realism. Though it will make you feel cold and empty inside (not a complaint) Cristian Mungiu respectfully knows how to make its haunting moments less unbearable without losing effect. Unforgettable and amazing, but I probably will never watch it again.
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dardan | 85 89th |
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women are left to fend for themselves. their acts of self-preservation must not be seen. the frontier now is the frontier of mankind itself, which is an exclusively interior one
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| Average Percentile 71.11% from 2537 Ratings |  |