4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days

"I'll go to the bathroom. When I come out, you give your answer. If it's yes, tell me who goes first. If it's no, I get up and go."

I've been wanting to see this for quite a while, I suddenly got in the mood and just decided to watch it, got more than I had anticipated.

Title: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Year of Release: 2007
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Genre: Drama
Rating: 8/10

This is a film set in the 1980's, in Romania. A woman wants to have an illegal abortion, she needs her friend, Otilia's help with arranging the abortion, etc.

I found this quite an exciting film which is weird thinking back because I don't think it is an exciting film of sorts, I don't think the intention is to be excited while watching the film. I'm not sure if the intention in certain scenes was to make you feel paranoid and worry about what is going to happen, that's how I felt throughout the entire film, that really made me enjoy it more. I'm sure a lot of people will find this film quite boring because there are a lot of scenes with little or no dialogue, one scenes goes for about six or seven minutes where the main character doesn't talk at all, only the people around her are talking, and it's nothing amazing, it's just small talk conversation. The constant use of silence throughout this film I felt was very affective, it really helped you feel how awkward, or worried the characters themselves felt. I personally don't find any of the scenes in this film pointless or overlong, which I'm sure other peoples opinion differs on.

The simplicity of the films plot is quite different from the usual, but the film itself isn't simple. There is a lot of mental and emotional feelings sent through this film. For those who watch this film in search for a film about pro/anti-abortions and political statements against Communist Romania, you won't get any of those. This film keeps itself simple and simply shows what the two women had to go through, their struggles and troubles. As I've said, this is a simple film, but there are some subtleties that help improve the film and for me at least, it lets you get paranoid and sometimes over-think certain elements.

I don't have a lot to say about this film, simply put, I just really enjoyed this. It really connects you to the characters feelings and uses some basic techniques to greatly enhance each scene. As a side note, this film looks really good too, has a nice foreign look to it (yup that's how I'll describe it ;D). For those who are interested and don't mind some decent length scenes with little dialogue I'm sure you'll enjoy this Romanian film.

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