DARK DAYS

DARK DAYS

Looking at the lives of women in a Romanian dictatorship

FOUR MONTHS, THREE WEEKS AND TWO DAYS (NR)

Directed by Cristian Mungiu

Starring Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu

Opens Friday at the Ricks

Nicolae Ceausescu ruled Romania from 1965 until 1989. During those years, Romanians endured a totalitarian government that impoverished them. In his attempt to make Romania completely independent by rapidly paying off the foreign debt, Ceausescu plunged Romania and its people into destitution and sowed the seeds that resulted in his own demise. Perhaps the most horrifying policy of Ceausescu was his plan to increase the population of Romania from …