4 Months, 3 saptamani if \u200b\u200b2 zile . Romania, 2007.

Director and Screenwriter: Cristian Mungiu
Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu
Subjects of interest: abortion
Synopsis:
Otilia, a student, try to put excuse for not attending the birthday of her boyfriend's mother. The real reason is not to go that night should help a friend who is going to terminate her pregnancy, illegal and dangerous in the 80's Romania.
Comment:
In times where the auteur increasingly opts for a somewhat vacuous aesthetics and less about the content, is welcome to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days dare put on the table on the thorny issue of abortion, political correctness as it tries to avoid any treatment carried out in this matter will upset one or other social sectors. As A women's affair ,
the film focuses on illegal pregnancy terminations, although changing the Nazi-occupied France by Ceausescu's Romania. No coincidence that all authoritarian regimes, both religious and atheists agree on condemning and prosecuting abortion under the guise of protecting human life that will develop inside the body of the pregnant woman is quite apparent cynicism of this concern for the unborn as these schemes show a clear disregard for the human rights of other infants. The Catholic Church is not far behind just in having double standards maintained throughout its history and to present a complicit silence in all schools and seminars on all kinds of mistreatment and abuse of children whose rights both can not do enough when they are still in the womb and therefore serve to impose a strict moral repressive sexual and limit the freedoms of women.
is widespread evidence that the banning is for very little when it comes to limiting the number of abortions, as demonstrated by the case of the Netherlands, one of the states with the lowest number of abortions even though they are can be performed freely during the first months of pregnancy, if the bishops and other sectors supposedly pro-life really want to limit the number of abortions would not oppose any attempt to give people adequate sex education and to promote the use of contraceptives, two methods of preventing unwanted pregnancies significantly more effective than touting sexual repression.
The situation found
women with unwanted pregnancies is reflected in all its pathos in the film: no means to travel abroad and perform the abortion there as will the girls of good family addicted to regime, she is at the expense of a butcher who not only shows no consideration for the suffering of the girl, but takes advantage of his desperation to finally get vejarla and sexual benefits in hard and tense scene in the film . The film, set in real time to give an impression of verisimilitude, get all this sleaze show without falling into sensationalism or whoever please see looking for striking images. The staging of long sequence shots with a fixed camera can not be simpler, and the narrative, no great speeches or edifying conclusions. Cristian Mungiu only shows the tension experienced by the main character, Otilia, the best friend of the girl who has an abortion, her innocence and bitterness after having been humiliated too, that gives you a grudge difficult to predict consequences in relation to her boyfriend, who probably imagine taking the same stance of the healer cold and insensitive, especially after hearing sexist remarks as repulsive as everyday family. The director appears to believe that women can only have the help of other women, the film ends up being, after all, a story of friendship. Scenes


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Highlights:
- The man who helps the girls to abortion instead of trying to reassure the young pregnant woman takes an arrogant attitude, after subduing the two young candid orally, blackmails not reaching out to abortion unless the two have sex with him.
- Otilia is forced to endure for several exasperating minutos las discusiones de la familia de su novio mientras espera con ansiedad a que pase el tiempo suficiente para que no sea descortés levantarse e ir a ver cómo se encuentra su amiga.
- Uno de los títulos más importantes de 2007 para la crítica internacional, ganador de innumerables premios. El primero, la palma de oro a la mejor película del festival de Cannes, a la que siguieron, entre otros, los premios del cine europeo a la mejor película y director, así como nominaciones al globo de oro y César de mejor película en lengua extranjera. No obstante, no consiguió ser finalista al Oscar en esta categoría, una ausencia que provocó some controversy.

Cristian Mungiu was born in Iasi (Romania) in 1968. He studied filmmaking in college and, after engaging in other jobs, he managed to direct his first feature West in 2002. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days , his second film, has placed the Romanian films for the first time ever, the focus of moviegoers.
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