4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Tallahassee Film Society screens award-winning Romanian film this weekend

The grim Romanian drama "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" — which won the Palm D'or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, last May — finally arrives in town this weekend with a screening by The Tallahassee Film Society at the All Saints Cinema.

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