4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile: Drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980’s Romania.

If you are looking for an entertaining movie to relax your mind skip this movie. This is a haunting movie, one that will remain with you for the rest of your life, one that I think enriched my own experience.

It starts out as a very mundane story about 2 young girls, who share an apartment in Romania. Their day stars and we follow their everyday routine. The first 20-30 minutes are almost boring to watch, they’re just “normal”. Something is hinted at, but we don’t know what it is.

Once we do find out what they’re doing, I was glued to the screen and couldn’t stop being tense and emotional. One of the girls is attempting an illegal abortion, and her roommate is helping her.

The rest of the movie chronicles the events that occur that day, until late at night. Again this is not something that I’d want to watch again any time soon, it’s a really difficult subject, but I think it is very well done.

The movie is filmed in a hyper-realistic style, with long takes where we’re just following a character walking through the streets. Also there is no soundtrack at all, all the sounds are from the street or the environment around.

It’s amazing what Otilia does for her roommate/friend, but I think she does it because she knows she could be in the same situation, and Gabita would do the same for her.

I can’t say I recommend this to anyone, but I do think this is a movie well worth watching that will remain with you.