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      Hemingway's Garden of Eden

      R Released Dec 10, 2010 1 hr. 51 min. Drama Romance List
      4% 24 Reviews Tomatometer 19% 500+ Ratings Audience Score During an extended honeymoon in Europe, a restless wife (Mena Suvari) tests her husband's (Jack Huston) devotion by inviting a sultry Italian woman into their inner circle. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Jan 01 Buy Now

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      Garden of Eden dramatizes Ernest Hemingway's clipped storytelling without carrying over the intelligence that undergirded the author's writing, yielding a thin drama full of artifice and no feeling.

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      Audience Member Solid cast and good directing. A fair take on the Hemingway novel, but the characters and their motivations seemed thin. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member hmmm another lost review-don't know why I bother Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member An intriguing Hemingway adaption. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member A writer and his wife take up with an Italian woman, and the three form an odd love triangle filled with lust and temptation. Garden of Eden confuses me. I haven't read the novel, but after the film, I want to. From what I can tell from the film, it seems like a first draft -- ideas that Papa plays with but hasn't developed into real characters yet. As Catherine transforms herself and her husband into carbon copies and as Catherine expresses her sexual obsession with Marita, it seems like Hemingway is exploring the slippery nature of sexuality -- how one can experiment with one's sexual identity. But what Hemingway specifically says about this concept remains unclear. It's doubtless that the story David writes -- told in flashbacks starring Matthew Modine -- is a mess. It's Hemingway's fantasies about manhood expressed through hunting and domination over nature. But this story has little to do with the frame story and doesn't give us any significant insight into David's character. Overall, I wonder if the novel is this incomplete because although the film has the beginnings of some interesting additions to Hem's oeuvre, it ultimately doesn't amount to much. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member convoluted story line. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member I just dont get it I'm afraid. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      (L-R) Jack Huston as David and Mena Suvari as Catherine in "Hemingway's Garden of Eden." (L-R) Mena Suvari as Catherine and Jack Huston as David in "Hemingway's Garden of Eden." Hemingway's Garden of Eden (2008) View more photos

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      Keith Uhlich Time Out An overly bookish dissection of romance, gender and obsession. Rated: 2/5 May 19, 2023 Full Review Jesse Cataldo Slant Magazine In this Riviera vacation atmosphere, all sun, sand, and skin, the dialectic of opposites the film attempts to enforce instead melts down to little more than kinky foreplay. Rated: 1.5/4 Dec 18, 2010 Full Review Cary Darling Dallas Morning News It just seems like a bunch of actors playing dress-up. Rated: 2/5 Dec 10, 2010 Full Review Brian Orndorf BrianOrndorf.com Sex has never felt more repellent after watching Eden, a clumsy effort of eroticism and psychological gamesmanship that's utterly devoid of structure and feeling. It's an awful picture. Rated: D- Mar 14, 2011 Full Review Kimberly Gadette Indie Movies Online The question that occurs is not whether director Irvin hates actors but rather, how much. We can imagine him shouting to the cast: 'Once more, with less feeling. Get shallow! Can't you do worse than that?' Rated: 1/10 Jan 7, 2011 Full Review Robert Levin Critic's Notebook A soft-core, Jazz Age skin flick masquerading as high art. Rated: 1.5/4 Dec 14, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis During an extended honeymoon in Europe, a restless wife (Mena Suvari) tests her husband's (Jack Huston) devotion by inviting a sultry Italian woman into their inner circle.
      Director
      John Irvin
      Screenwriter
      James Scott Linville
      Distributor
      Roadside Attractions
      Production Co
      Devonshire Productions, Freeform Spain, Berwick Street Productions
      Rating
      R (Nudity|Strong Sexual Content|Some Language)
      Genre
      Drama, Romance
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Dec 10, 2010, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 15, 2011
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $22.1K
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