简介：AndreiBlaier'sfilmcatchesthelastdaysofTheStoneCrossalowclassbrothelsareathatbecamesomekindofaninstitutioninthelandscapeofBucharestbeforetheCommunistperiod,doomedtodestructionunderthenewrulesofproletarianmoralsthattheCommunistsweretryingtoimpose.Theideacouldbethestartofagreatfilm,withtheprostitutionbeingseennotsomuchfromitsdestructiveandexploitationperspective,butratherasaformoffreedominatimewhenthewholesocietywasfallingundertheruleofpropaganda,hypocrisy,andrepression.Inaworldduetofallundertyrannyforthecomingdecadesprostitutionbecomesametaphoroftheoldmorefreewayoflife.…