4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days -Cristian Mungiu - winner of Cannes 07'

someone?

Still waiting for it to come to town. Maybe next week?

Wot I said on my Flixter thing:

I knew it would be harrowing, but I wasn't expecting it to be so very tense. Kept me in its grip throughout and was brilliant at portraying a world in which just everyday living was made a pain in the arse at every turn, even without a friend's unwanted pregnancy to deal with.

the real and unpleasent view of abortion, more "vera drake" than "knocked juno up" i guess.

I'm really having trouble motivating myself to want to see this.

you should, it's the best movie ive seen in a long time (along with the PTA blood one).

There Will Be Blood could work as the title for this too.

it could work for half of the movies ever made

For some reason "There Will Be Pus" came into my head when I was walking around town today.

Anyway, sorry. 4M3W&2D. Terrific. Really. Not just a chore to see, like you might expect. I think you're right about some of its cinematic strengths, which are unshowy and unsubtle.

"just everyday living was made a pain in the arse at every turn"

perfectly exampled on that disturbing dinner with the family scene.
we feel the same inner tense of the main character, though she doesnt have a word on the script.
perfecrtly shot,great idea.

That dinner scene was brilliant. The way it just held on her face for God knows how long, with all the chatter around her, a crescendo of unsettling inanity.

I thought it was better than The Lives Of Others at portraying the claustrophobia of life under communism.

i think he was influenced by Chantal Akerman on that scene.and soem others.

right.
"life of others" was,esp. at the annoying end, more hollywooded styled movie.
4 months, is super realistic, and thats why more effective to understand.

I want to see but am having a hard time making myself go as well, it's playing on directv pay-per-view but I was more in the mood for Mr. Woodcock last night. one of those things I'll get distracted from if i don't sit my ass in a theater

Honestly, it's really gripping.

it's a 100% art house movie.
keep that in mind before you go, and it will be easier to keep the patience

Really well handled.

They should show this as a double bill with Juno.

Really quite funny in places too.

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hi czn,

yeah this film is amazing. almost the best of last year.

hi enrq,

i just bought S&S. well done on the cover story, will read it later.

:D

: D

I will buy and read that, too! </love-in>

surprised there are no other threads on ilx for Cristian Mungiu

Graduation on the surface is mundane, but it is such a dense, loaded film

with a protagonist desperately wanting to save his child from a diminished life, enduring indignities and compromise. There is a sense of something looming, an unnamed resentment or malevolence in the surrounding community reminiscent of The White Ribbon (a film which shares a major cast member with this)

a graduation from innocence

low level threats, rocks through windows, smashed windshields, “I’ll talk to them” corruption, "may I ask you a favor?"