: Shot in Riga in July 2000, the film originally presents itself as a traditional, critical documentary investigating the prostitution landscape in post-Soviet Latvia.
: Film scholars often analyze the film alongside Lukas Moodysson's Lilya 4-ever as part of a wave of Swedish media that explored themes of guilt and moral decay regarding the Baltic states following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Buy Bye Beauty (2001) - SFdb - Svensk Filmdatabas Buy Bye Beauty
: Critics heavily condemned the film for reinforcing the very economic inequalities and predatory behaviors it claimed to critique. : Shot in Riga in July 2000, the