Film review -4 Luni, 3 Saptamâni si 2 Zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) (2007)

4 Luni, 3 Saptamâni si 2 Zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) (2007)

Those super longs shots definitely pose challenges to the actors, but their performance is flawless! The realistic style and gray and cold tone really serve well in telling such a compelling story of two young women struggling in a hostile, cold, and brutal world dominated by male power -- personal, cultural, or represented by the state power. I don't agree that this is a film that criticizes Communism, because their experience with hostility and brutality is also shared by women in what we call the "free world," only probably in different ways. Brilliant!