This is a film with a commitment to reality unlike any we're used to seeing.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Nothing good happens in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the riveting, horrifying chronicle of an illegal abortion performed in 1987 when Ceauescu's dictatorial hand still gripped Romania's throat. And yet no lover of greatness in filmmaking will want to look away from one of the very best movies of 2007.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
This is a powerful film and a stark visual accomplishment, but no thanks to Gabita (Laura Vasiliu). The driving character is her roommate Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), who does all the heavy lifting.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
Romanian writer-director Cristian Mungiu's brilliantly discomfiting second feature is one long premonition of disaster.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
Despite their terrible ordeal these women are heroes, not victims. As Mungiu makes clear in the casual, brilliant final scene of this amazing movie, heroes persevere.Read Full Review »
Writer-director Cristian Mungiu confirms the Romanian cinema renaissance while creating a paradoxical marvel: a bleak tale of illegal abortion that powerfully affirms one's faith in people.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
It’s a pitiless, violent story that in its telling becomes a haunting and haunted intellectual and aesthetic achievement.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
You just don't expect Hollywood to produce a masterwork so early in the new year. And it hasn't. This slice of celluloid dynamite comes from Romania, and what you see will floor you.Read Full Review »
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