Hemingway's Garden of Eden

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Al S I thought the film was lovely to watch and that it reminded me of Hemingway's style in how the personal conflicts developed among its characters. The three main character's attractiveness is reason alone to watch this film. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/01/25 Full Review Audience Member Solid cast and good directing. A fair take on the Hemingway novel, but the characters and their motivations seemed thin. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member hmmm another lost review-don't know why I bother Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member An intriguing Hemingway adaption. Rated 3/5 Stars •  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 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member convoluted story line. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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