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Oh my. I knew I loved Cristian Mungiu\u2019s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days<\/a><\/i> when I saw it at the local film festival four months ago, and I knew I really regretted not being able to see it a second time before writing my second, longer review<\/a> of the film last month for CT Movies. But now Victor Morton has seen it a second time and posted two new appraisals of it at his Rightwing Film Geek blog, and I am deeply, deeply in awe, both of the film itself and of Morton\u2019s analysis of it. In this first, brief post<\/a>, he pays specific attention to the film\u2019s final scene, and in this second, longer post<\/a>, he re-evaluates claims he had made<\/a> about the film when he first saw it in September, and he offers some dazzling interpretations of the film\u2019s visual compositions \u2014 its use of mirrors, its use of vehicles moving in opposite directions, etc. \u2014 and how they lend themselves to the movie\u2019s moral themes. I am so, so glad this film is coming back to Vancouver<\/a> in April. I can\u2019t wait to see it again.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"