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The dismal life options that can induce a pimp to whore out his girlfriend, and for her to go along with it, are laid out in prosaic yet vivid fashion in the Romanian drama Loverboy. The second feature, after The Way I Spent the End of the World, which showed in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2006, by Catalin Mitulescu, is dominated by sullen young men in sunglasses bombing around forlorn landscapes on scooters and in sports cars and generally having their way with teenage girls with prospects even more meager than their own. It’s a forlorn milieu, but still fertile enough for tragedy, however drab. While not a major Romanian film, this is still one of some interest for followers of that nation’s cinematic flowering.

Loverboy stars George Pistereanu and Ada Condeescu, both of whom debuted last year in Florin Serban‘s If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, which was co-written and produced by Mitulescu. Set mostly along a grim stretch of road not far from an industrial port city along the Danube, the story is strongly wedded to its location, a place where nothing much ever happens or ever will, where you either get out or live the most proscribed of lives.

But if you look like Luca (Pistereanu), a trim, dark-haired gigolo-type with the air of a French or Italian movie star circa 1960, your prospects can be a bit brighter, at least for a while. After a brush with the law involving the fate of a former lover, he lolls around, regarding the world impassively from behind his sunglasses, saying little, waiting for something new to turn up.

She does, eventually, in the form of ripe-for-the-picking farm girl Veli (Condeescu). “If you were smart, you’d stay away from me,” Luca warns her early on in a rare moment of direct honesty. “Maybe I’m no