4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days

finally saw 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days. It was a fairly chilly film about the gulf between a woman and nearly everything else in her life. The catalyst for this is an abortion her friend needs. By this mean, she is separated and alienated from her boyfriend, society, and at last, even her friend. In a shallow way, I found the friend very annoying. She seems unreliable and arbitrary (though of course, through half the film she's just had an abortion, so in another way I can't judge.) The film itself is a big fan of long takes that simultaneously force empathy for the character and isolate the character. A very grimy film. There's only one or two really difficult scenes. Mostly things are just grim and sort of shitty.