4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days

(2007)

Cristian Mungiu • 113 min • Romania

Tickets

Location: Brutus.

Address: Keileweg 10-14, 3029 BS Rotterdam

Regular ticket € 11,00

English subtitles included

Extra program: a performance by spoken word artist Sarafina

No refunds, we offer substituted screenings if we are forced to cancel the screening

The filmprogram of the evening starts 21:15! 

At 20:30 you can join the circle conversation ‘Ei Kwijt?’ led by AVA helpt and share your thoughts and experiences on anti conception and abortion.

Birth control pills  are dealt illegally in and around the building where two young women reside. Hidden in small bags, stored underneath mattresses, secretly passed on from hand to hand. On the other side of Europe birth control pills are mundane goods, but in communinst Romania in the 80s they are forbidden. So when young Gabita finds out she is pregnant she, together with her best friend Otilia, arranges an illegal abortion in a hotel with Bebe, the sketchy doctorpretended abortionist. 

The sober architecture and dark surroundings already make you shiver, but as the film continues in the hotel room you really feel as if you are entering hell. In this social realist drama you become the fear, anger and injustice Gabita and Otilia are facing. The outstanding and fierce acting performance of Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu pull you into the brutality of the script. You know you’re watching a film, but this is real. It’s fictiona film, but it’s frightfully contemporary. 

Cristian Mungiu won the Palme d’Or in Cannes 2007 with this masterpiece. When 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days was released in theaters we were deeply shocked and could only wish what we just witnessed would belong to the past, but worldwide illegal abortion still takes place. With abortion legislation yet again enforced in the US this film hasn’t lost its urgency. This is what illegal abortion can look like and we want the world to know.

A spoken word artist Sarafina will be performing before the screening of 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days. Their creations, focusing on the feeling of otherness, will be sure to touch your heart alongside this brutally honest film.

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