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One of the best movies from Romanian Cinema. The movie is really..drama . it gives you a bad feeling..

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Not more. Masterwork. I saw this movie 2 years ago. The internal coldness of this movie burned my bone marrow. It is still alive in a corner of my mind.

A powerful and distubing tale set in Ceausescu's Romaina. How this wasn't even nominated for an Oscar is baffling. One of 2008's best movies.

This movie is one of the most powerful, shocking, realistic movies I've ever seen. It also somehow pulls off the impossible task of making a well-rounded argument about abortion without getting too political. That probably sounds insane, but I swear it's true. If you are anti-abortion, you might leave this film with the belief that we need to legalize it completely. If you are pro-abortion, you will definitely find yourself second-guessing your beliefs, because this movie does revel in some gruesome imagery. The color scheme of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is stunning. The cinematography and direction is immaculate. The acting is really great, and really hard to watch. I don't know if I'll ever watch it again because its so upsetting, but I am really glad I watched it. It can be slow at times, and that's not always a good thing, but this is a must-watch movie. I'd put it up there with works like Schindler's List or Twelve Years a Slave.

In this gut-wrenching drama, we are presented with a story that will shake your core, "4 months" thrives on realism, it doesn't spare us anything and will not shy from displaying the gruesome world we live in, it tackles what arguably is one of the most controversial topics in modern society and it does it with an elegant polished style, the acting here was everything, the two opposite leads are just near damn perfect, the emotions and sentiments that they illustrate are breathtaking and so moving, so much so you find yourself majorly invested in what's gonna happen next. This is the brutal life-like cinema that I like. It offers a unique insight into a world so dark you can't take your eyes off it.

La historia es interesante, pero la peli es muy lenta, como todas las de artes.

Tense, unexpected, interesting, good plot. Because I don't speak Romanian, difficult for me to know if the acting was ok or not, but it seemed good. Dialogue seemed good also from the subtitles.

If it was exactly August 31st, 2007, we would have exactly 4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days before the release of this film. Exactly what a legendary film would bring us.

If this was awarded the #1 Best Movie, I can write off the rest of that year. Perhaps there is a lot of politics behind that award and the high "critical acclaim" which distorts the rating. The movie is dark and dull. I'd rate it lower but I like films that have historical context, foreign cultures, and are in other languages.

Watch this movie for the perfect example of how to trick everybody into thinking your movie is good, without actually having to create an intelligent story. Just make it about a controversial issue, have a shocking proposal from a doctor to two women halfway through, and show a human fetus to freak people out. Then everyone is so blown away that they're convinced it's because of the merits of the film. I wouldn't really call this a pro abortion movie. In fact, the fetus scene is like the videos of slaughterhouses they make to convince people to become vegetarians. Regardless of the stance it takes, it doesn't really go about it in a thought provoking way. The one thing I did appreciate was the idea that the one girl was willing to accept the doctor's offer for her friend. It was an interesting statement about friendships, although it's possible that that just happened by accident, and that the writer wasn't really even thinking of that. I will not reveal my opinion on abortion, but I don't think it matters. A weak script is a weak script. The movie is all about shock value, and people mistake that for decent writing.

I can't remember a movie where I cared so much about what I was watching. Though it moves slowly and inconspicuously, it builds an incredible amount of momentum by the midpoint. I found myself thinking "please please let things work out for these two girls", as if they were good friends of mine. And I'm usually overly critical and not easily drawn in. It helps that Mungui manages to avoid a single false note in the entirety of the film with his direction. Anamaria Marinca plays her very difficult role without a trace of self-pity. This is a truly amazing movie that surprised me.

Powerful. Not a happy story by any account but a story of mis-guided friendship where there is no happy ending for the 'good one'. Its a dark novel brilliantly transformed to the movie screen.

Not a bad movie but by no means worthy of all it's praise. A woman gets an illegal abortion, end. Yet another instance where a taboo subject matter is confused for a compelling story.

The neorealism and morbidity of of the subject might shy away some viewers, but everything about this movie is handled with such delicate care - the acting, the cinematography, the absence of a film score - that it really does **** you into it's existence, forcing you to feel the hardships of living in a state of oppression. Moral of the Story: don't live in a place where abortions are illegal.