Maybe the script writer and director is not very familiar with East-European culture and music, but she has created a movie which I surely can call "vivid". Actors playing really good (Gabriel Byrne especially), characters are shown very well. Plot is simple (plot is not the main thing in movies, I should say), there's no kind of declaration, just life and nice people with all their good and bad sides, painted very good - that's what I appreciate in movies.