4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days: The Corruption of Intimacy

Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days shares with other recent Romanian films, notably The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) and 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006), a preoccupation with accessing large-scale phenomena (politics, history, society) through the narrow focus of meticulously observed individual stories.