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Cannes fav 4 Months wins FIPRESCI Grand Prix

Published on September 4, 2007

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.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).