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'4 Months, 3 Week and 2 Days'

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A cigarette burns on a table in the opening and closing scenes of "4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days." There is so much smoking in Cristian Mungiu's harrowing and heart-stopping drama; more precisely, there is the sense of smoking. When characters are not lighting up or waving cigarettes in the air, they are scouting about dorm rooms and bootleg joints looking for packs to give, trade or use for bribes....

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