Robin Campillo rose to fame in 2004 with his first movie They Came Back (Les Revenants) from which he created an extraordinary adaptation for TV. Now, with the same grace and elegance, he presents Eastern Boys, where he deftly mixes claustrophobic intrigue with a sensitive love story between Daniel, a respectable businessman and Marek, an Eastern European rent boy. What starts as a clumsy blackmail plot by a street gang operating out of Paris' Gare du Nord, becomes a story of desire, redemption and hope.

This fascinating and aesthetic piece about immigration, prostitution rings, and the idealized relationship between client and rent boy, serves as a post-modern Cinderella story of sorts, masterfully playing with plot, cinematography, and an extraordinary soundtrack to reveal the brutal contrast between violence and tenderness. A captivating and intense movie.