4 mesi, 3 settimane e 2 giorni

Friend Indeed Who Doesn’t Judge or Flinch

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. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (5891 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 25 gennaio 2008