4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile) (Romania)
The Story:
Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) and Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) are college roommates. They may live in the wintry squalor of 1987 Romania in the last days of Communism. Gabita is the pregnant one; she's also the more childlike one, nearly paralyzed with fear. So it falls to Otilia, as Gabita nervously waits in their dorm room, Otilia takes the cash they've collected -- 2,700 leu -- and pays a visit to her boyfriend, Adi (Alex Potocean), a medical student who lends her an additional 300 leu after nagging her about attending his mother's birthday party that evening.
Otilia meets with Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), a man who makes it his business to help women like Gabita, women in "trouble." Mr. Bebe is angry to learn that he won't be performing the procedure at the hotel he insisted on, a hotel he knows is "safe" and even angrier when he finally meets Gabita, who's now waiting for them back at the room. Just looking at her Mr. Bebe can tell Gabita has lied about her condition: She's well into the fourth month of her pregnancy, not the second, which means that according to Romanian law, Mr. Bebe will now be committing murder. Mr. Bebe informs them both that due to the added risk he'll be incurring, his price has just gone up, and he's no longer accepting just cash. He demands sex from both women for his services.In order to help her friend, Otilia reluctantly has sex (and eventually Gabriela does as well) with Mr. Bebe so that he will not walk out on them.
Mr. Bebe then performs the abortion and leaves Otilia instructions on how to dispose of the fetus when it comes out. Otilia is visibly exasperated by Gabriela's lies, yet continues to help her and care for her.Otilia leaves Gabriela at the hotel to go to Adi's mother's birthday.
Over the course of 24-hours the women’s lives are irrevocably changed.
Starring:
Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alex Potocean
Directed By:
Cristian Mungiu
Release:
2007
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