Eastern Boys
This [is a] small, expert film - a pane of glass in a concrete wall - that whispers, that dares to stand still and witness ordinary human pain.
Eastern Boys
Arriving from all over the Eastern Bloc, the men who loiter around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris are scraping by however they can, forming gangs for support and protection, ever fearful of being caught by the police and deported. When the middle-aged, bourgeois Daniel (Olivier Rabourdin) approaches a boyishly handsome Ukrainian who calls himself Marek for a date, he learns the young man is willing to do anything for some cash. What Daniel intends only as sex-for-hire begets a home invasion and then an unexpectedly profound relationship. The drastically different circumstances of the two men’s lives reveal hidden facets of the city they share.
Presented in four parts, this absorbing, continually surprising film by Robin Campillo (director of the 2004 film Les Revenants and a frequent collaborator of Laurent Cantet’s) is centered around relationships that defy easy categorization, in which motivations and desires are poorly understood even by those to whom they belong.
Presented in four parts, this absorbing, continually surprising film by Robin Campillo (director of the 2004 film Les Revenants and a frequent collaborator of Laurent Cantet’s) is centered around relationships that defy easy categorization, in which motivations and desires are poorly understood even by those to whom they belong.
Genre
Drama
Runtime
128
Language
French,
Russian,
Ukrainian,
English
Director
Robin Campillo
Cast
Olivier Rabourdin,
Kirill Emelyanov,
Edea Darcque
Awards:
Nominee, Best Film, Cesar Awards
FEATURED REVIEW
Stephen Holden, New York Times
“Eastern Boys,” the most compelling film to be shown at last year’s RendezVous With French Cinema series at Lincoln Center and just now getting an American release, is impossible to shoehorn into a generic box. This story of a lonely middleaged businessman whose involvement with a scrawny rent boy ...
Played at
NoHo 7 5.01.15 - 5.07.15
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