Bruce Lee and the Outlaw review – brutal, beautiful portrait of a Romanian street kid

Following Nicu as he grows from childhood to adulthood, this documentary is as tender as its content is uglySome children come trailing clouds of glory. Nicu comes surrounded by a cloud of silver paint fumes, which he huffs from a plastic bag almost constantly, as do his fellow street kids and adults who are the legacy of the collapse of the communist regime in Romania. He pays for the bottles of paint, called Aurolac, by begging and – we see his bravado and tears afterwards – &ldquo