Film: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days is not a feel-good film, but it does a beautiful job showing what it means to be unable to choose a legal abortion. Set in Romania before the fall of the Ceausescu regime in 1989, it's a literally unflinching look at what a pregnant college student and a friend go through in the course of a single day to get help that's against the law.

I saw it with friends last weekend at the Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge, where it's still playing. We kept thinking and talking about it for days.