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Drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980's Romania and picked up the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Read more

Starring	Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean
Director	Cristian Mungiu
Genres	Drama

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- Pitch perfect and brilliantly acted, FOUR MONTHS, THREE WEEKS AND TWO DAYS is a stunning achievement, helmed with a purity and honesty that captures not just the illegal abortion story at its core but the constant, unremarked negotiations necessary for survival in the final days of the Soviet bloc
- 179210
- - Variety
  - 26 Mar 2011 at 01:32
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  Deathly dull
  
  Once again all the positive reviews of this film are 'worthy'.
  
  When you break it down to reality this is an exceedingly dull piece of ... read more »
  
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  - Surrey, UK
  - 28 Jul 2008 at 09:01
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  Waste of life
  
  one of the poorest films I've seen in a really long time. The two lead female characters did not inspire me to care about what happened as they were both ... read more »
  
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- - Tomsie
  - 1 review
  - 25 Mar 2012 at 21:10
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  ... if you're not into Bruce Willis or Cate Blanchett's stuff
  
  Great cinema, powerful in its realism, reminds us what a good writer and a skilled director can achieve with a presumably slim budget. Dialogues are on the ... read more »
  
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- - Hooked
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  - Isleworth
  - 23 Dec 2011 at 12:46
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  A good watch- but not with friends and certainly not on a Saturday...
  
  I know that it has got to be a hard sell to make a film about illegal romanian abortions in the 1980's enjoyable- but this one was certainly making no ... read more »
  
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- - DirtyIngenue
  - 24 reviews
  - London
  - 27 Aug 2011 at 20:45
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  Unflinching, unmissable
  
  Shot with an unflinching, rarely moving style, after the initial tracking shot around a dormitory in search of Kent cigarettes and black market Tic-Tacs, this ... read more »
  
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- - LifeVsFilm
  - 3 reviews
  - 28 Jul 2011 at 08:29
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  Romanian Tragedy
  
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  Cristian Mungiu is a very talented writer/director and this is a strong, almost raw, story about the problems surrounding the abortion of a baby in Romania ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 03 Jul 2011 at 12:31
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  wonderfully understated
  
  The most impressive film on abortion we have seen to date, acted to perfection and all the more powerful because it is so understated.
  
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  - 29 May 2011 at 19:07
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  It's not entertainment
  
  And nor is it meant to be. A young student with an unwelcome pregnancy tries to get an abortion in a Romania with an extremely autocratic communist ruler and a ... read more »
  
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- - Zamy
  - 552 reviews
  - London
  - 31 Mar 2011 at 10:11
- - 5
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  A Tragic Human Tale
  
  Not all stories are feel good and cosy, and this is a tragic but human tale of real friendship. The grim circumstances of Ceacescu's Romanian rule are well ... read more »
  
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- - Cato
  - 589 reviews
  - Lydbury North
  - 24 Dec 2010 at 14:42
- - 6
  - 1
  Excellent but difficult
  
  Only watch this film when you're feeling strong enough to cope and be careful who you watch it with. It is harrowing and unflinching and depicts a place and... read more »
  
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- - blue jane
  - North Yorkshire, UK
  - 01 Nov 2010 at 09:27
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  Life behind the iron curtain
  
  Harsh and cold film. Sets out the reality of back street abortion in Romania during the 80s. Although the subject matter is daunting it is an excellent piece of... read more »
  
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  - Leics
  - 22 Oct 2010 at 14:58
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- - 167
  - 37
  Deathly dull
  
  Once again all the positive reviews of this film are 'worthy'.
  
  When you break it down to reality this is an exceedingly dull piece of ... read more »
  
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  - Surrey, UK
  - 28 Jul 2008 at 09:01
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  Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days
  
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  An uncomfortable, bleak , but nonethless hypnotic watch as we see this Romanian offering from director Christian Mungui that took the main prize at Cannes last ... read more »
  
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- - Burtonbach
  - 57 reviews
  - Abertawe
  - 21 Jul 2008 at 23:54
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  A film to think about, difficult to be detached but beautifully paced
  
  This film did well at Cannes and one was sceptical whether it was another piano teacher, but this film was fabulous.Tthe characters are real and deep. It does ... read more »
  
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  - manchester, england
  - 21 Jan 2008 at 01:09
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  Brilliant
  
  I saw this movie in Cannes. I can't wait till the DVD is released in UK. This is a masterpiece.
  
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  - Woking
  - 23 Mar 2008 at 02:23
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  Oh dear
  
  I think that I have wasted 90 minutes of my life watching this.
  
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  - Saltburn-By-The-Sea
  - 30 Jun 2008 at 22:48
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  - 4
  Subtitles completely useless
  
  We stopped the film after 10 minutes because the subtitles only translated about 20 to 25% of the words spoken. Completely useless. We reported the fault but it... read more »
  
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  - Herefordshire, England
  - 01 Jul 2008 at 13:53
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  What's the point?
  
  I couldn't agree with 'deathly dull', above, more! I'm no philistine but being worthy is not enough! This film just left me feeling depressed ... read more »
  
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  - Chertsey
  - 11 Sep 2008 at 15:53
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  - 3
  Terrible
  
  What a terrible film - slow, boring plot. The whole film is based on a Romanian girl's struggle to get an abortion.... that's it!!
  
  How this ... read more »
  
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- - staceyjoanwatson
  - 1 review
  - Nottingham
  - 23 Jul 2008 at 15:25
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  Great
  
  Great acting, beautiful to look at, haunting, thought-provoking - and a brilliantly-paced thriller-cum-social-realist-drama. Slightly confusing to start with (... read more »
  
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  - Edinburgh
  - 01 Jun 2008 at 10:41
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  Without options
  
  A powerfully bleak film about the attempt of a student in Romania to obtain an abortion with the help of her friend. The acting is superb throughout and keeps ... read more »
  
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- - kilvey
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  - Wellington
  - 28 Jun 2008 at 15:05

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Critics' reviews
- Pitch perfect and brilliantly acted, FOUR MONTHS, THREE WEEKS AND TWO DAYS is a stunning achievement, helmed with a purity and honesty that captures not just the illegal abortion story at its core but the constant, unremarked negotiations necessary for survival in the final days of the Soviet bloc
- 179210
- - Variety
  - 26 Mar 2011 at 01:32
- Winner of the Palme d'Or, Mungiu's second feature is set in Bucharest in 1987 and is a precise and thoughtful study of... read more on Time Out
- 50417
- - Dave Calhoun
  - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:20
- The first must-see movie of the year
- 258868
- - The Times
  - 28 Mar 2012 at 03:34
- A masterpiece... outstanding
- 258867
- - The Guardian
  - 28 Mar 2012 at 03:34

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  Drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980's Romania and picked up the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival....