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Some films are able to dazzle you without the employ of special effects, mammoth Hollywood stars and nudity. They manage to lumber under your skin and derive inside you. They leave an indeliable tag on you. Cristian Mungiu’s “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile) ” is such a film. And easily one of the best films of 2007!
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Whatever the reason, currently Romanian is a hot property. People and critics are impartial buzzing with excitement about what is going on in Romanian cinema. And even though I’m not Romanian (I’m Hungarian) I’m radiant wrathful about it too.
In 2006 there was the release of “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu”, besides “4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile”, also released in 2007 was “12:08 East of Bucharest”. These three films seem to be share of a novel wave in Romanian film. Each takes on original day society while questioning the past. All three are confrontational.
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“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” takes spot during a 24 hour period in which a young girl, Gabita Dragut (Laura Vasiliu) seeks an abortion in Ceausescu’s Romania. At the time such acts were against the law. She needs the assist of her roommate, Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) to sort out the details and supply some benefit, since the father of the child is not only never seen but never spoken of either.
The two girls fetch in contact with Bebe (Vlad Ivanou) through a mutual friend. Bebe is the only person who will produce an abortion after the 4th month, this is how the film gets its title. That is how long Gabita has been pregnant. Bebe though does not seem like a trust profitable kind of guy. He has something up his sleeve. But he will not be the raze of their problems.
The film sets itself up as a thriller and possess it or not, it is suspenseful. There are no dawdle sequences, no cops and robbers, unprejudiced the suspense that the two girls will rep found out and risk prison and worst yet may have physical wound done to them.
Though the characters never protest directly about politics, Mungiu and his cinematographer, Oleg Mutu (who also shot “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu) very in subtle ways inform the viewer about life under Ceausescu. We can sense the paranoia of the times and the government control. ID’s are contantly asked for and checked. Streets are empty. Everyone buys supplies from the sunless market. Even if you are not familiar we the history of Romanian we can recognize or at least earn a sense of what life was like under the times.
The film is fully conceived and realized by Mungiu who has directed only one other feature film entitled “Occident”. Every character is believeable as is their position. I never questioned whether or not what was on-screen could or could not happen. It is current as truth. But the standout performances are given by the girls. Neither has powerful experience. Marinca has a brief role in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Youth Without Youth”, also spot in Romania. And Vasiliu has only acted in one other film, Nicolae Margineau’s masterpiece “Bless You, Prison”. With such minute acting experience how on Earth did these girl pull off these roles? They are the heart and soul of the film and deserve every bit of acclaim they procure for this movie and more.
And the film has been getting acclaim. It was the winner of the Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It won a prize at the Chicago Film Critics Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe. Sadly though, it has received no Oscar nominations, showing the Academy’s prejudice towards countries on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall.
Mingiu says the film is only the first fragment of a series he plans on making ironically entitled “Tales From the Golden Age”. I watch forward to seeing all of them.
Bottom-line: One of 2007’s best films. An intense film that becomes all the more unsightly when you reflect “this feels apt”. Two strong performances by the young girls in the film are highlights.
I reflect there are some facts that people not familiar with Romanian history need to know in order to better understand the movie. Since the Ceausescu’s goal was to increase the population, not only the abortion was illegal but the contraception was also non-existent. Young people were also not educated in family planning at all. Occasionally one could lift contraceptive pills from dubious sources on the murky market, but overall, besides using the calendar map (highly unreliable for many women), the abortion was the immediate mean to avoid an unplanned pregnancy.
The movie is capable and there is no need for spoilers however, since people will react accordingly depending on their stance toward abortion, I consider it is indispensable to mention that abortion was not illegal on accurate grounds. It was a region policy to increase the population which made contraception and family planning education also illegal or at least non-existent.
Ironically, statistics showed that the population did not increase nowhere approach conclude to what was expected.
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