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	List Price: £19.99 Our Price: £11.98 Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Manufacturer: Artificial Eye Starring: Vlad Ivanov, Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasilu Directed By: Cristian Mungiu
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5021866376301 Format: PAL Label: Artificial Eye Manufacturer: Artificial Eye Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Artificial Eye Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2008-05-26 Running Time: 109 Studio: Artificial Eye Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Editorial Reviews: The friendship between two girls is tested to its absolute limits in this utterly compelling drama set in the twilight years of Communist-era Romania. Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), young and naïve, is pregnant. She turns to her more pragmatic room mate Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) for help and a meeting is arranged in a downtown hotel with the shady Mr Bebe (Vlad Ivanov). Entering a dangerous and illegal underworld where the stakes are high and nothing is as it seems, the girls are set for a life-changing experience that neither will ever forget. Brilliantly observed, superbly performed and directed with quite astonishing flair, this tense, poignant and provocative film has been hailed as a modern masterpiece. Extras: Interviews with director Cristian Mungiu & actress Anamaria Marinca / Theatrical Trailer / Filmographies
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Grim Viewing Comment: This Romanian film is about a pregnant young girl and her roommate who conspire to kill her unborn baby. They hire the services of a back street abortionist with whom one of the girls has sex to help pay his bill. The whole depressing and sordid tale concludes with a disturbing image which vividly highlights the reality of abortion. The film is gripping and intense and would be a good advert for the Pro Life movement although I'm sure pro abortionists would argue that if this type of service is provided in an official, businesslike manner with a friendly smile then it would negate the need of women to use scumbags like the one portrayed in this film."4 weeks" is a good film,but is quite harrowing to watch. Customer Rating: Summary: Compelling, but grim Comment: This is a superb piece of work: grittily realistic; moody, naturalistic filming; excellent, believable acting, but, it's more a documentary about the horrors of "back-street" abortions, that is unremitting in its grimness. All against the back-drop of the difficulties of dealing with life in the aftermath of a totalitarion state. The film Vera Drake comes to mind as a comparison and, as a film, I'd rate the latter higher as it had more variety of emotion and the characters were more rounded. Customer Rating: Summary: the misunderstood masterpiece Comment: This is not just the Romanian film on abortion. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is the story of two girls and their attempt to solve the problem of having an abortion in a totalitarian state where aborition was prohibited. The reason abortion was illegal, and people went to prison for attempting it, is because Ceausescu thought that Romania needed a bigger population because he gathered that a bigger population meant a more powerful state. Therefore, there was no contraception available and people had to make do with what they could. Now, what 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days shows, in a shockingly honest way, is that humanity can endure even the most degrading and inhuman of situations. Ironically, what this film is about is survival. The girls simply need to get on with their lives and survive. And you, the viewer, will witness their every thought and emotion etched on their faces. You will witness their struggles and decision-making moments. It's an inspiring piece, a visionary attempt. You cannot not be affected by watching it and hopefully, hopefully you will come out a better person for it. Bogdan Tiganov - author of Romanian For Sale and the soon to be released The Wooden Tongue Speaks Romanians: Contradictions & Realities More Reviews