Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days

The best compliment I can give this film is that it made me feel sick. Astounding, really, as most of it is long takes of conversations with only one explicitly upsetting visual. It is what is conveyed in these conversations, as well as what’s subtly conveyed in the staging and acting, that made my stomach churn. “Four Months” establishes early, in innocuous scenes, that you’ll have to stay in its moments for as long as its characters do, so when matters take a grim turn, you know, perhaps subconsciously, there’s no release from what you’re seeing. A necessary, difficult watch.

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