German Joys (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
The questions on everyone's minds before the 2007 Cannes film festival was whether No Country for Old Men by old favorites the Coen Brothers, would win the Palme d'Or. Many observers expected it to. Instead, the Palm went to 4...
IndieWire (Free subscription) | 27/01/2008
by Howard Feinstein (January 27, 2008) For his second feature, 39-year-old Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu knew exactly what he wanted--and garnered the Palme d'or in Cannes last year for it. He made a film that takes place over 24 hours in a provincial town one day in 1987, before the dictator Ceaucescu was deposed and Communism fell in Eastern Europe. It is a personal story based on an experience...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 25/01/2008
Filed under: Drama , Foreign Language , Awards , New Releases , Cannes , IFC , Theatrical Reviews When I first heard that the 2007 Cannes jury had chosen Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days to receive its prestigious Palme d'Or , I was crushed. They had chosen the abortion movie, the "issue" movie, over an actual work of art, like Ethan and Joel Coen's No Country for Old Men -- how unlike...
Dork Nation (Free subscription) | 27/12/2007
The Belcourt is giving a series of films from the late genius director Shohei Imamura, one of two men to have one the Palme D'orr award at Cannes twice. Imamura’s influence – his stamp – a kind of gruff, grimey approach to film that swallows the sour whole and spits out the sweet, should be [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 14/12/2007
EARLY in this year's Cannes festival, writer-director Christophe Honoré was philosophical about the prospects for his modern-day musical in the competition for the Palme d'Or. He compared the festival to the Eurovision Song Contest because "France usually comes second or third last."
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 03/12/2007
The 1,800-member European Film Academy, in 20th anniversary ceremonies in Berlin, has given its prize for the year's best film to "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," which captured the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Reuters reported. The film, by Cristian Mungiu of Romania, who also won the prize for best director, tells of two student friends who are ruthlessly exploited when one seeks...
Festival21.com (Free subscription) | 22/11/2007
The International Film Festival of India will open with the most celebrated film of the year ‘ FOUR MONTHS, THREE WEEKS, TWO DAYS" directed by Cristian Mungiu from Romania. The film won the prestigious Palme D'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival this year and has received wide critical acclaim all over the world. The Director Cristian Mungiu and the leading actress of the film Anamaria Marinca will...
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2007
Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or winner 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS & 2 DAYS, THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, THE QUEEN and THE EDGE OF HEAVEN are among the multiple nominees announced for the upcoming 2007 European Film Awards. Announced on Saturday (04Nov07) at the Seville Film Festival in Spain, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, [...]
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 02/11/2007
This realistic abortion drama by unsung Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year, shocking viewers with its brutal honesty.
FilmChat (Free subscription) | 23/10/2007
When 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days -- Cristian Mungiu's masterful film about a woman and her friend trying to procure an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania -- won the Palme D'Or at Cannes earlier this year, a number of people wrote as though the film took some sort of implicitly pro-choice stance ("if only abortion had been legal in Romania at that time, these women would not have had to go to such lengths,...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2007
Film News: Success brings changes for '4 Months' director -- Winning the Palme d'Or is a career-changing experience for any filmmaker, but for Cristian Mungiu, whose "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" took this year's top honor at the Cannes Film Festival and is unspooling in Pusan, life has changed in small but incremental ways. Not that he's complaining.
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 01/10/2007
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with our second Vancouver Film Fest story... this one from Gwai Lo, who saw a few flicks he wants to tell you about, including Takeshi Kitano's GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER, the Cannes Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney in THE SAVAGES and a new crime epic out of South Korea called SOO. I saw THE SAVAGES earlier this year (it's...
eugonline (Free subscription) | 26/09/2007
At the New York Film Festival this morning, an iPhone snapshot of Cristian Mungiu, director of this year's Cannes Palme d'Or winner, "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days". Those involved with the film would really prefer if you didn't refer to it as the "Romanian abortion film," even though its from Romania and deals with abortion. In fairness,...
