{"id":207,"date":"2008-01-23T23:25:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T03:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/late-4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T23:25:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T03:25:25","slug":"late-4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/late-4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Late: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a day late. In my case, it’s only that I’m a day late in joining the chorus of others Blogging for Choice<\/a> but for a lot of women the words “I’m late” start a spiral of emotions and life altering decision-making.
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At the Art Gallery of Windsor, there’ll be a film screening tomorrow night, January 24, 2008 @ 7pm of a film that shows what happens where there is no choice for women. <\/p>\n

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days<\/strong><\/a>
\nWinner of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival Palme d\u2019Or Award<\/em>
\nRomania 2007
\nDirector: Cristian Mungiu;
\n113 minutes
\nRating: PG
\nPrincipal Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Vlad Ivanov, Laura Vasiliu, Alexandru Potocean<\/p>\n

The film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days<\/em> is the powerful story of a young woman who gets and illegal abortion in small-town Romania during the dying days of Communist rule. <\/p>\n

When Gabita decides to terminate her pregnancy \u2013 a crime in Romania from 1966 until 1989 \u2013 her fiercely loyal university dorm-mate and best friend, Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), accompanies her to a hotel room to be \u201chelped\u201d by Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), the only black-market practitioner they can afford. When the foul Bebe requests something far more precious than money for his services, the girls descend into a harrowing journey of the soul that is nothing short of shattering.<\/p>\n

Taking place over a single Saturday in 1987, the film holds an enormous emotional gravitas.It evolves into a profound exploration not only of sorority in harsh times but of choices and responsibility when options are few. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Art Gallery of Windsor is in downtown Windsor, Ontario.
\n401 Riverside Drive West Phone 519-977-0013
\nTickets: $10 per person (includes Gallery admission)
\nAdvance tickets available in the AGW\u2019s Gift Shop, 519-977-1400<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a day late. In my case, it’s only that I’m a day late in joining the chorus of others Blogging for Choice but for a lot of women the words “I’m late” start a spiral of emotions and life altering decision-making. At the Art Gallery of Windsor, there’ll be a film screening tomorrow night, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,12,33,39,37,9,30,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}