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) a...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English French Russian Ukrainian |
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New York, NY :
First Run Features,
2013
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed February 01, 2016). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (129 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 02:08:56 |
| Language: | In English, French, Russian, and Ukrainian; with English subtitles. |
