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Less successful is a third chapter where Marek's housing project, run by a stalwart female caretaker Edea Darquesketches the futility of modern Europe's welfare state. Both characters -- both performers -- express the tension, the threat, the temptation of gay desire, and humanize it.

There are subversive possibilities in their unarticulated longing.

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Campillo's artiness his overture sequence recalls the distanced slow-probe at the beginning of Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation is broken-up into three sequences, the most effective titled "This Party of Which I Am Held Hostage" where Daniel is extorted by the gang to which Marek belongs -- especially Boss Daniil Vorobyov who taunts Daniel sexually while his boys empty-out the highrise apartment.

[3] It premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in the Orizzonti section and was later screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the Toronto International Film Festival. Email Newsletter Subscribe Subscriber Services.

Watch a trailer below:. Daniel is willingly stripped of bourgeois vanity but not of his privilege. Campillo analyzes the attraction that links prostitute and john, native and immigrant in -- as that opening graf suggests -- an almost literary as well as cinematic fashion.

A gang of youths who are obviously impoverished and street-tough troll Paris' famous Gare de Nord train station. Daniel and Marek's attachment blocked by language barriers comes from the loneliness each one feels: Daniel's barren middle-class habits and Marek's uncertain prospects.

Ukrainian-immigrant Emelyanov has an Oliver Twist defenselessness and Rabourdin probably intentionally resembles one of our most famous, presumed closeted actors. Here, Campillo's fascination with the realities of social exploitation -- steadily shown in lengthy contemplative compositions -- works better than Heading South ; particularly when he observes gay desire that is as strong, disruptive and immediate as today's social, political yearning.

A businessman makes a regular arrangement with a Ukrainian prostitute, despite the youngster's involvement in a controlling street gang. Director Robin Campillo titillates the unthinkable possibilities familiar from that genre of East European porn that troublingly pimps harems of east boys gay, self-deprecating anonymous youth -- a symptom of modern European crisis.

Eastern Boys: Directed by Robin Campillo. Their relationship isn't your standard gay love story. With Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Daniil Vorobyov, Edéa Darcque. This same problem ruined Laurent Cantet's Heading Southan obvious Marxist critique of colonial Europe scripted by Campillo in which rapacious older white female vacationers preyed on black Caribbean boys.

He submits to humiliation, later pursuing simplicity with Marek as if after some private fulfillment. Eastern Boys adds a serious sociological perspective to its neorealist eroticism. It unveils a criminal underground that corrupts needy immigrants while providing a surreptitious service for elites.

Eastern Boys is a French romantic thriller film written and directed by Robin Campillo. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Director Robin Campillo's Eastern Boys explores cultural and personal intimacy — and provides some of the best sex scenes of the year.

Campillo parallels older man Daniel preying on youth in order to examine aspects of gay experience that are still subject to criminalization and, due to various, long-standing social inequities poverty, vagrancy, homophobiadeserve to be critiqued.

57th BFI London Film Festival - Dare Daniel is a middle-aged gay man who makes an assignation with Marek, a Ukrainian boy who is one of the many deracinated Eastern European youths hanging out at. This opening sequence in Eastern Boys is itself a cruising proposition.

Watching Eastern Boys is like reading a Jean Genet novel, picking up details of basic but illicit impulses Daniel and Marek first stare at each other underneath a Gare de Nord staircase as if examining mirrors that reveal each one's secrets.

Their remarkable sense of intimacy, arousing unanswered questions about both men's emotional background, are the sex scenes of the year--offering several shades of empathy. Campillo missteps into a kind of political cautionary tale that is far less interesting than the mystery of Daniel and Marek's alliance.

The dozen or so of them from Russsia, Ukraine, and Romania make it plain that they are available for hire -- or for trouble. The story of a bourgeois Frenchman Daniel Olivier Rabourdin who solicits one of the street sitges gay hotel, Marek Kiril Emelyanovjuxtaposes lust and greed as two defining -- perhaps damning -- features of the contemporary West.