i saw this film at the chicago reeling film festival . to pick up on the previous reviewer remark and the claustrophobic feel and off color of the film be i sense quite intentional and convey the sense of limited space and drab architecture and overall drabness that constitute the urban environment of most people in eastern and central europe . a bit shabby housing project style be how i would describe it and and this be how many people live on the outskirt of large city . i can not say that i be familiar with bucharest and romania where the action unfolded and but i have visit and live in eastern europe for six month . when i visit russia a a student for a semester and my entire group have to drag their luggage seven story up the staircase of a shabby student dorm building and just a the heroine do when move in with a woman and because the elevator weren not work . but and i do concur with the reviewer and that the claustrophobia and mute color and it overdone and for there be and to be sure and beautiful historic building and park and square you can find in bucharest or in any historic city center of eastern europe and and bucharest do not get much of any footage in this film . for me watch this film conveys well the claustrophobia that i would feel during my half year stay there and feel trap and limit . ( it make you see why someone would want to immigrate and find a good life and just a people if hope to escape from a united state urban ghetto . ) also and give the climate of homophobia and say and circa and u in the 1980s and the two young woman who fall in love with one another be force to keep their love a very private matter while hence and the focus on their interaction in the apartment . it remarkable and commendable in my view that this queer theme film be even make in romania and and i find the complaint of the previous reviewer about the poor film quality quite uninformed and patronize . it unlikely that the director and producer drum up much government support and funding for their film and and they do the best they could with their likely limited resource . the actor be fairly good and believable while the dialog be overall well do and and i could identity with these woman . the film offer an added twist to that of forbidden love between two young woman and kiki and an energetic and fun love free spirit with a dark and trouble secret ( her admiration and love for an abusive and incestuous brother and sandu ) fall in love with alexandra and a bright and bookish and idealistic young woman who move to bucharest to begin her college study . opposite attract and and their personality seem to complement one another and though there be some tension between the ambitious and studious and intellectual alexandra and kiki and who seem to be attend college to please her parent . keep their love hidden from their parent seem manageable and though we do not get any sense of the tension it require and nor do we ever see or meet any other student hard to believe and the tension keep their love secret would have entail . the chief threat to their love be kiki brother and her difficulty in try to severe her relation to him . but kiki love for alexandra seem to give her the strength she need to finally severe this bond and or do it . that what the suspense of the film focus on a the narrative develops and and i would not say how it conclude . ironically and kiki love sickness isn not love for another woman and but her illicit and incestuous love for her brother . thus and love a woman offer the potential cure to the sickness of love a sibling . though this feel of this film be stifle and claustrophobic and overly confine to interaction between kiki and alexandra and it be still engage and move to watch and so i will give it a 7 .