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Director's Statement
Loverboy came to life through many different stories in which I found similarities – an emotion I kept experiencing and which I needed to understand better by looking into people’s stories and lives. If I were to describe this feeling, I would call it “love”. A love so intense, that you feel the need to destroy it. And the more you feel the need to destroy it, the more powerful and more intense it becomes. I used to take long drives and leave Bucharest with no particular destination in mind. That’s how I discovered the poor towns and villages near the Danube River. These empty places were the setting that shaped the tone of a story. The story came to life naturally. From all my trips, from all the stories I’ve heard, I managed to write the script pretty quickly working as a team with Bianca Oana, who had the experience of making a documentary about 4 boys who just got out of prison, one of whom became a loverboy. The dialogue is authentic most of the time, inspired by the documentary, and the written scenes are directly inspired by that mood and atmosphere. Loverboy is a trade. This film is a love story. It is the love story that I chose to tell now, in Romania.