4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

A stunning story of friendship and sacrifice during the last days of Romanian communism. Roommates Otilia and Gabita are busy preparing for a night away. But rather than planning for a holiday they’re arranging for Gabita's illegal abortion and soon find themselves burrowing down a rabbit hole of stark realities and ugly truths.

"The number one film of the year. A great film." (A.O. Scott, New York Times)

"A POWERHOUSE with enough intensity to leave you gasping for air . . . bEAUTIFULLY REALISTIC, FAULTLESSLY MADE. Underlined the emergence of Romanian cinema as a world force." (Kenny Turan, L.A. Times)

“In 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a ferocious, unsentimental, often brilliantly directed film about a young woman who helps a friend secure an abortion, the camera doesn’t follow the action, it expresses consciousness itself. This consciousness — alert to the world and insistently alive — is embodied by a young university student who, one wintry day in the late 1980s, helps her roommate with an abortion in Ceausescu’s Romania when such procedures were illegal, not uncommon and too often fatal. It’s a pitiless, violent story that in its telling becomes a haunting and haunted intellectual and aesthetic achievement.” Manohla Dargis, New York Times)