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I wanted to talk about how District 9 fails, and Avatar wins, but I think instead I will talk about a Romanian film about abortion. If you scroll down lower in the website you may come across my appeal for Cinematheque Ontario’s “Best of the Decade” film festival, which is a selection of artsy films from the last decade playing at the AGO’s Jackman Hall, presumably named after famed actor Hugh Jackman. Anyway, I went to see 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days. The film opened at the awesomely named Transilvania International Film Festival in 2007, and went on to world wide acclaim winning the Palme d’Or in the same year, and (probably) brought acknowledgement to the Romanian film industry. The film takes place in 80’s communist Romania, and follows two female college students over the course of a day as one of them attempts to get an abortion, which are illegal at the time.
