4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007 Cannes Palme d’Or Winner)
The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2007 features the Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Written and directed by Mungiu and starring Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov and Alexandru Potocean, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days was a key building block in the Romanian New Wave.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days-2008), Mike D’Angelo in Las Vegas Weekly (https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/archive/2008/mar/27/an-agonizing-choice/), and Manohla Dargis in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/movies/25mont.html).
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