Eden Is West

Eden Is West French Eden louest is a 2009 film by GreekFrench director CostaGavras about an illegal immigrant called Elias who tries to get to Paris. The original title in Greek is Paradissos sti Dysi Paradise in West and since it is a GreekFrench production, the also original French title is Eden louest. The nationality of the central hero is not disclosed because Gavras wants to make a point about the odysseys of the illegal immigrants of any nationality, since he himself was an immigrant 50 years ago in France, before he became a well known director. His hero seems to tolerate the sea, the cold of snowy mountains and the hunger, the rapists and robbers he meets, the cops that are after him all the time, the racists who push him aside, the fellow immigrants who steal his clothes and in the best case the women who see him as a lover they could also take advantage of. His only comfort is his dream of Paris and, in the complexity of human condition, the good within the evil and vice versa.

In the meantime nasty things happen to him he is raped by the manager of the hotel and in another occasion he is obliged to clean a toilet with his hands because a tenant considers him to be a plumber. He also happens to witness the arrest of a friend of his, an illegal immigrant, who is discovered hiding near the hotel. He also sees the dead bodies of two immigrants who didnt make it and drowned trying to swim to shore.A middleaged German woman named Christina Juliane Khler wants him as her lover and offers him refuge in her room. She also gives him money. He leaves the Eden Club and tries to travel to Paris by hitchhiking, without realising how far it is. A man takes advantage of his ignorance and says he will take him to Paris as long as he shares the expenses. Elias wants to prove he can afford it and shows an envelope where he keeps his money. The man steals his money and leaves. A peasant woman passes by with her tractor and takes Elias to her home there he helps her sell birds and is friendly with her children. Soon after that, he leaves. ........

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