I'm less than a week away from seeing the premier film that came out of Cannes in May, and unsurprisingly that same picture was just awarded the prestigious award (in my books) voted by critics around the globe. FIPRESCI will award 4 months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The tales tells the story of Otilia and Gabita share a room at a students' hall of residence. Both go to university in a small Rumanian town during the last days of communism. Otilia books a room in a cheap hotel. They have a date with a so-called Mr. Bebe that afternoon. Gabita is pregnant, abortion is illegal and neither of the two has experienced anything of the sort before.
The FIPRESCI Grand Prix for Best Film of the Year, presented since 1999 at the San Sebastian Film Festival, and created to highlight the most daring, original and personal cinema, has formerly gone to some of the most groundbreaking moviemakers of the moment, such as Pedro Almodóvar, Kim Ki-Duk or Jean-Luc Godard.
