: In the final minutes, the documentary shifts from an objective observation to an explicit, transgressive performance piece. Hollender reveals that he engaged in sexual intercourse with six of his female informants on camera, paying them for these acts.
: 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. : In the final minutes, the documentary shifts
is a highly controversial 2001 documentary film by Swedish director and performance artist Pål Hollender. It explores the dark underbelly of the Latvian sex industry, specifically examining how it was fueled by businessmen and sex tourists visiting Riga from Sweden. Buy Bye Beauty (2001) - SFdb - Svensk
: Because the women featured in the film are identifiable, Hollender has historically refused to allow the film to be screened in Latvia to protect them from further local exposure.
: Shot in Riga in July 2000, the film originally presents itself as a traditional, critical documentary investigating the prostitution landscape in post-Soviet Latvia.