With the necklace and Souad Massi song Ghir Enta, I only love you, I felt closer to the unknown or the end of the film. Nino, the Romanian man, wears a beaded cross necklace for his 17th birthday. Through the pain and passion of the unknown: why are some people so passionately attracted to each other without reason or understanding the depth of attraction and connection? This film explores the gentle and subtle unfolding of attraction and how it can awaken and also send some into a somnabulant sleep like state. The music in this film had a presence and colour that brought youth and age or history and culture to the story. Noemie Melphant's character puts the necklace around her neck just before the credits and at a time when we wonder her choice. The music gives me a hint not the face of her friend in the backseat. Her tears and pain suggest a break but from whom, from where and where to is unanswered.

4 French girls one of them French-Romanian holiday in Romania and their car gets jacked; then they spend a summer in that country and a love affair ensues; and problems their host family has with a debt incurred to local gangsters is also part of that tapestry

OK so those are the brush-stroked outlines; the colour is provided by the relationships between the girls the friendships also the love affair; the summer fling; and also the father and son debating what to do to placate the gangsters

It has a very nice bitter-sweet rhythm all the way through and although the subject-matter to me was not so gripping the way it was presented was so genuine that it grew on me and got me to the end

Some of it seems like the stitching is not quite there and the scenes bump into each other a touch at times but overall it totally works; this is a heart movie. And effective at that.