A devastating movie but curiously photographed, this is one movie that is difficult to watch but hard to turn away from. It's a story of two people: one woman who left Ukraine for Vienna in hoping for a better life, while at the same time a man who headed eastward from Vienna for, well, anything at this point. The composition is odd, so I was pretty much glued to the screen despite some of the truly bleak content written. There's also some very dark humor; in one scene, a elderly, lonely, and possibly terminally-ill patient asked if the woman would move into his house just to keep him company, and if this work out, they could get married. She laughed, but this is one poignant and yet despair scene. Some critic has called this movie "moralistic"; I don't know. Most people aren't going to be able to finish a movie like this to even discuss morality.
