Daniel is a little bit lost in this kind of relationship, as he doesn't know how to manage himself. Here Marek is quite mesmerising for Daniel, and he knows exactly how to manipulate this older guy who doesn't know how to talk to him. In that sense he becomes very weak he's confused between feelings of romance but at the same time he knows that it's not exactly legal. Of course it's not exactly like this, but in his mind it's something quite romantic. When he talks to Marek it's like he's wants to have a form of romance. Opening in Paris’ chaotic Gare du Nord, the film centres on Daniel (Olivier Rabourdin), a middle-class older gentleman who solicits a young Eastern European prostitute, Marek (Kirill Emelyanov), for sex, only for his apartment to be raided by Marek’s gang, which is lorded over by Boss (Daniil Vorobyov).ĭirector Robin Campillo: “For me I think of it as Daniel’s first time going to talk to a prostitute, but maybe it was something that he had been contemplating for a long time. Like every city, Paris has a darkness that diverts itself away from the tourist traps and picturesque Kodak moments, something that director Robin Campillo highlights with his latest film Eastern Boys, a film that focuses not only on issues of immigration, prostitution and commodification, but also transformative forms of love.