TIFF Reviews
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Cristian Mungiu
(113’, Romania)
****
Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or–winning tale about an illegal abortion in Ceauçsescu’s Romania is essentially a realist horror flick. Two women—one the timid, pregnant Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), the other her sassy friend Otilia (Anamaria Marinca)—put themselves at the mercy of a fierce abortionist, aptly named Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov) in (where else?) a room of a creepy hotel, seemingly run by a pack of bloodthirsty, bureaucratic ghouls. Mungiu’s overriding message is convincing, if ultra-basic—Romanian communism bad, progressive abortion legislation good—and his film is more intriguing as a study of the crumbling friendship between two young women. Here, sacrifice becomes downright perverse, altruism a burden, and neediness its own, special strain of totalitarianism. (DB)
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