Eden Is West

Eden Is West

2009 · 110 min · FR · 6.3 (51 votes)
Dir. Costa-Gavras · Starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Éric Caravaca, Juliane Köhler, Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Ulrich Tukur, Anny Duperey · Music Armand Amar
Drama

Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden. So begins Elias odyssesy across Western Europe to Paris, where wondrous promise, helpful new friends and perilous dangers await him every step of the way.

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A haunting, dreamlike journey of a young man adrift. It feels like a quiet ache, a search for belonging in a world that offers both fleeting beauty and stark indifference. The film lingers like a half-forgotten memory.

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