of Cristian Mungiu (2006)
with Anamaria Marinca , Vlad Ivanov, Laura Vasiliu
Otilia and Gabita , two students sharing a room in a university dormitory, living their lives during the last years of communism in Romania under Ceausescu . Gabita is pregnant but does not want the child, and Otilia contact a man who, illegally, to abortion, but the cost is very high.
Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes , 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a masterpiece that can hardly be reduced to words.
The environment in which the events take place is perhaps the real star of the film: the places are gray, dark, cold, people are no better, in fact we see the hotel keepers and petty curious, engaged relationships with artificial families hypocritical and false. the mirror of a country in the late eighties, still in the grip of communism, with the consequent alienation of any single individual, who can no longer look for a sincere and immediate contact.
The only chink in the film is the friendship between Gabita and Otilia, who will be sorely tested by the first unwanted pregnancy, and the help afforded it by his friend.
This is not a film about abortion, or better, can become as any action prohibited, under dictatorial rule, which falls in the fundamental rights, when it becomes necessary changes to a trauma, a tragedy. Here abortion, but really could have been anything else.
The pain brought by this event, the maximum amplified by the awareness of being outlawed by guilt and repressed, is dominant in every scene, until the final dissolution, in which the only refuge, the only solution is to try forget: forget the law, forget the violence inflicted on him themselves from others and to others, you forget to be human.
We can say with certainty that the face a neo expressionist film , thus indicating the position of pathos every situation through scientific study, through analysis and staged raw and true. Needless to say, the acting is superb, like almost every other aspect of the work.
A film that changes the way you see the film, a masterpiece.
rating: 10/10
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