4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days [2007]

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-07-21 rating:
Grim Viewing
This Romanian film is about a pregnant young girl and her roommate who conspire to kill her unborn baby. They hire the services of a back street abortionist with whom one of the girls has sex to help pay his bill. The whole depressing and sordid tale concludes with a disturbing image which vividly highlights the reality of abortion. The film is gripping and intense and would be a good advert for the Pro Life movement although I'm sure pro abortionists would argue that if this type of service is provided in an official, businesslike manner with a friendly smile then it would negate the need of women to use scumbags like the one portrayed in this film."4 weeks" is a good film,but is quite harrowing to watch.

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review by: date: 2008-07-01 rating:
Compelling, but grim
This is a superb piece of work: grittily realistic; moody, naturalistic filming; excellent, believable acting, but, it's more a documentary about the horrors of "back-street" abortions, that is unremitting in its grimness. All against the back-drop of the difficulties of dealing with life in the aftermath of a totalitarion state. The film Vera Drake comes to mind as a comparison and, as a film, I'd rate the latter higher as it had more variety of emotion and the characters were more rounded.



review by: date: 2008-04-05 rating:
the misunderstood masterpiece
This is not just the Romanian film on abortion.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is the story of two girls and their attempt to solve the problem of having an abortion in a totalitarian state where aborition was prohibited. The reason abortion was illegal, and people went to prison for attempting it, is because Ceausescu thought that Romania needed a bigger population because he gathered that a bigger population meant a more powerful state. Therefore, there was no contraception available and people had to make do with what they could.

Now, what 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days shows, in a shockingly honest way, is that humanity can endure even the most degrading and inhuman of situations. Ironically, what this film is about is survival. The girls simply need to get on with their lives and survive. And you, the viewer, will witness their every thought and emotion etched on their faces. You will witness their struggles and decision-making moments.

It's an inspiring piece, a visionary attempt. You cannot not be affected by watching it and hopefully, hopefully you will come out a better person for it.


Bogdan Tiganov - author of The Wooden Tongue Speaks- Romanians: Contradictions & Realities

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