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I thought the film was great. My boyfriend read me the blurb and I thought, "Gah! Why should I pay $10 to feel depressed for two hours?" But I really enjoyed it.
I particularly liked the scene composition -- for example, in the scene O'Hehir mentions, when the heroine Otilia is stuck at her boyfriend's parents' dinner party, the dinner table is crammed with people, only you can't see most of them: The camera allows various elbows and cigarettes into view, but not faces. I can't quite explain how affecting this was, how it contributes to the atmosphere of claustrophobia and tension, or how much, as a moviegoer, I enjoyed the experience.
There's a real feeling of dread and terror -- the scenes in the hotel with the abortionist were particularly shocking -- and Otilia is a fantastic heroine.
Seriously, you should see it.
"In fact, although "4 Months, 3 Weeks" is about a woman who wants to have an abortion, it isn't about the question of abortion at all"
In film theory class, I think they called this "The MacGuffin"--the thing that drives the plot but is in itself not the point of the film.
I think I will look for this movie based on the engaging review.
