The Romanian film on Netflix, awarded with the Palme d’Or: it will impress you to tears

On Netflix you can find everything from comedies to dramas. The Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a highly awarded national and international drama that will leave a deep impression on you.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a film by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, which received the Palme d’Or award at the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and a FIPRESCI award at the same festival.

The Romanian film discusses a taboo subject: the drama experienced by Romanian women in the context of the anti-abortion decree under Ceausescu. The theme was also reflected in the 1974 film Ilustrate cu flori de campo.

The Romanian film on Netflix that will bring tears to your eyes

So the film is set in the final years of the Ceausescu regime and follows the story of two students over the course of a single day in 1987. Găbița, with the help of her friend Otilia, tries to have an abortion, illegal at the time.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is part of a larger project entitled Memories of the Golden Age – a subjective history of communism in Romania told through urban legends. The aim of the project is to talk about this period without direct references to communism, but only through different stories focused on personal choices in a time of unfortunate events that people had to live through as if they were natural.

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