432 isn't the average sunday afternoon type of movie, that you see with your friends while eating popcorn and drinking soda. it is pretty hard to understand what the movie is all about if you haven't experienced life in the pre '89 Romania. i am now 18 years old, and many of the things i have seen in the movie seem strange and distant to me. the world presented in the movie is the perfect illustration of what a comunist regime can do to society. i don't think that the movie is meant to shock, or scare people, but to make them realise the privileges they have, and the better world they live in. it should give each and every one of us a second thought! watch the movie, and think about it!

Mircea, Brasov, Romania

The movie is very well presented by the Times. It is one of the best movies I have ever seen. The coincidence is that I am coming from the same generation with Mr. Mungiu, and I lived the same times in Romania. The movie is a stunning picture of those times. It drags you into the the inside the story and makes you feel the same feelings the main characters had. It dragged me back in time and reminded me about the tension we lived until 1990. After the movie ended, I kept staying and said nothing for couple of minutes. I am not sure how much people who did not live those times in Romania could understand and feel the movie. I do not want to comment the previous opinions.

Horia, Bucharest, Romania

Definitely one of the best movies in Romanian cinema after '89!
432 is realistic, a main differentiation point from all Hollywoodian special-effects box office "masterpieces" :)
People would definitely remain shocked and horrified after seeing it because the drama is not neccessarly about abortion but, it is about the way life can be lived in fear. FEAR of a "greater power", without having an ideea of what FREE is supposed to mean!!!
Moreover, is also about friendship and staying together for better and worse. Lastly it is about confronting your own mistakes and dealing with them..about what maturity means.
432 can be seen as a lesson (and contra-argument) for all those who still believe that totalitarian regimes (especially Comunism) are "good in theory" but people have mistakenly "put them into practice". For those who consider it mediocre I would strongly suggest to think/see it again. Nobody can watch this movie without having cold shivers over her/his spine...I wonder why?

Oana, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Oh My God! How can you say something like this? People, you are from Romania!
This film is great. The best romanian film i have ever seen. It is very shocking as well...
But...i guess those people from Cannes were wrong, right?

Sunrise, Bucharest, Romania

it's not a movie about abortion...in romania is hardly misunderstood. It's about the process of dehumanisation, it's about the Fear. It's a movie which shows you what a totalitarian regime thinks about a human being. It's a journey of a ordinary woman to hell (and we should not judge, like vatican did, the love of life! and try first to understand ...)

Dan, london, uk

OMG. Please excuse my English from the start.
I am from Romania and the people here don't think at this film like it's a masterpiece.
Come on, everything that's hapening in this movie it's normal and boring (what can be more boring than a girl that it is filmed making an abortion for about the entire film, aprox 80 minutes ) but to the US citizens this look like a SF.
You people are just fascinated because you are impressed by the actions that hapened in 1989 (revolution) and you think that is something incredible, interesting, sad or whatever u think but is not like that.
NORMAL THINGS FOR THE 3rd WORLD = SF for the civilizated countries.
Now Romania is a modern country, not like in '89.

Danutz, Iasi, Romania

this movie is overrated. just try to see beyond the foggy "period piece" mise-en-scene, and you'll have nothing but a drama about mediocre people. not ordinary people. just mediocre. the kind that actually nobody cares about, even if they experience dramas. this is not cinema. before you care about the poor little girls, try to imagine them as your friends. and only then you'll get the idea: they are simply hypocritical mediocre people

cinema, transylvania, transylvania

does anyone know where i could pick this movie up?

MS, sheffield,