Synopsis
Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
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Cast
- Anamaria MarincaOtilia
- Laura VasiliuGăbiță
- Vlad IvanovDomnu' Bebe
- Alexandru PotoceanAdi
- Luminița GheorghiuMrs. Radu
- Adi CărăuleanuDr. Radu
- Liliana MocanuUnireal Hotel receptionist
- Doru AnaGas pump attendant
- Ion SapdaruDr. Rusu
- Cerasela IosifescuReceptionist Tineretului
Recommendations
- 100
Empire
Tense, kinetic, intelligent and real – as if Paul Greengrass had remade Vera Drake. - 100
Time
One of the strongest movies in recent years. - 100
Los Angeles Times
This is a film with a commitment to reality unlike any we're used to seeing. - 100
Variety
Pitch perfect and brilliantly acted, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 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. - 100
L.A. Weekly
Though the frighteningly late-term abortion at its center hints at larger sins in the last gasp of Nicolae Ceausescu’s iron-fisted regime, it’s no metaphor, but a sordidly visceral transaction conducted in the next best thing to a back alley. - 90
Slate
A beautiful and formally compelling work of art. - 90
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The coup de grâce is especially graceless because everything we know is already visible in Marinca’s eyes. The actress is extraordinary. - 88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Relentlessly dark but expertly rendered, it shares its cinematographer and quality of aggrieved compassion with another recent Romanian art house hit, "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu."
