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Eden Is West

2009 · 110 min

A picaresque journey that mixes hope and hardship, leaving a bittersweet sense of resilience.

Overview: 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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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: immigration
survival
isolation
identity
class
Places: road trip
countryside
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	3
Horror	1
Humour	3
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Written by: Jean-Claude Grumberg, Costa-Gavras
Starring: Riccardo Scamarcio, Éric Caravaca, Juliane Köhler, Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Ulrich Tukur, Anny Duperey, Léa Wiazemsky, Marissa Triantafyllidou
Music: Armand Amar
Cinematography: Patrick Blossier
Runtime: 110 min
Country: France, Italy, Greece
Languages: English, French, Greek, German

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