4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days
Cristian Mungiu's masterpiece is a thriller about an abortion in Communist Romania. It won the Palme d'Or and announced a new cinema of unflinching honesty. The long takes are not stylistic choices — they are moral ones.
The Legacy
The Romanian New Wave proved that great cinema does not require great budgets. It requires great stories told with courage. Every film school graduate who picks up a camera owes something to Bucharest.