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. Read critic reviews
Hemingway's Garden of Eden
2008, Drama/Romance, 1h 51m
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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.
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Rating: R (Nudity|Strong Sexual Content|Some Language)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Original Language: English
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Director: John Irvin
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Producer: Lorne Thyssen, Tim Lewiston, Bob Mahoney
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Writer: James Scott Linville
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Release Date (Theaters): limited
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Box Office (Gross USA): $22.1K
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Distributor: Roadside Attractions
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Critic Reviews for Hemingway's Garden of Eden
Audience Reviews for Hemingway's Garden of Eden
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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.
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Consider me in the minority, but I actually really enjoyed this film. The acting fits better than I had originally thought and it works on the perfect period piece level of looking and feeling out of this century.
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