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Eastern Boys

Director - Robin Campillo
Run Time - 128 minutes
Languages - French, Russian, Ukrainian, English w/ English subtitles
Format - DVD / Digital Streaming
Year - 2013
Genre - Fiction

Educational Interests- Adolescence, Gay & Lesbian Studies

Institutional DVD Price: $195

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.

"Campillo thankfully refrains from offering on-the-nose explications for behavior and decisions, instead letting audiences infer psychology and motivation from on-screen behavior, with the entirely naturalistic performances of Raboudin and Emelyanov beautifully tuned in to each other and the material." - The Hollywood Reporter

"Compassionately conflicted views of gay male sexuality and inter-European immigration mesh to fascinating effect." - Variety