Miami Beach Cinematheque. From May 3rd through May 6th, 2008.
The Miami Beach Cinematheque, located on Espanola Way in Miami Beach, presents the screening of the film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days on May 9th May 3rd through May 6th at 7:30 p.m. In the most critically acclaimed film of the year, Otilia and Găbiţă share the same room in a student dormitory. They are colleagues at the University in this small town in Romania, during the last years of communism.
Otilia rents a room in a cheap hotel. In the afternoon, they are going to meet a certain Mr. Bebe. Găbiţă is pregnant, abortion is illegal and neither of them have passed through something like this before. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days belongs to a larger project called: Tales from the Golden Age – a subjective history of communism in Romania told through its urban legends. The project’s aim is to talk about that period with no direct reference to communism but only through different stories focused on personal options in a time of misfortunes that people had to live like normal times. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is the first film of the series.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is presented as part of the Miami Beach Cinematheque Premiere HD Digital series in collaboration with Emerging Cinemas South Beach Premiere. The film was awarded the Cannes Film Festival Palm d’Or, European Film Awards Best Film, Best Director, National Society of Film Critics, Chicago, LA Film Critics Best Foreign Film, Cesar Awards, Stockholm, Vancouver and Sofia Film Festivals Best Foreign Film.
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