Blu-ray, DVD Release: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 19, 2019
Price: DVD $26.07, Blu-ray $26.99
Studio: Criteri0n

Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu shot to international prominence with his rigorously realistic 2007 Palme d’Or-winning second feature 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.

In 1987, during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, college roommates Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) and Găbita (Laura Vasiliu) seek an illegal abortion for Găbita. In unflinching but empathetic detail, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days recounts the events of twenty-four perilous hours in their lives, culminating in their encounter with a manipulative and menacing abortionist (Vlad Ivanov).

With powerful performances that accentuate the characters’ flawed humanity, this Romanian drama is a gutting account of the impossible choices women face when taking control of their bodies means breaking the law.

Criterion’s director-approved special edition features the following:

* New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Cristian Mungiu, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
* New interview with Mungiu
* New interview with film critic Jay Weissberg on the New Romanian Cinema
* Press conference from the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, featuring Mungiu; director of photography Oleg Mutu; and actors Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, and Alexandru Potocean
* The Romanian Tour, a short documentary from 2007 on the film’s reception in Romania
* Alternate and deleted scenes
* Trailer
* New English subtitle translation
* An essay by critic Ella Taylor

Buy or Rent 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.