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Garden of Eden

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United Kingdom, Spain · 2008
Rated R · 1h 51m
Director John Irvin
Starring Jack Huston, Mena Suvari, Carmen Maura, Richard E. Grant
Genre Drama

David Bourne is a writer who served in and survived The Great War. After an intense courtship, David marries Catherine Hill and the couple embark on an international honeymoon. While David attempts to write his new book, Catherine torments him romantically, even introducing another woman, Marita, into the relationship.

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Los Angeles Times by

Handsomely presented, with locations in Spain and Africa, the film at moments accomplishes its ambitions of being a tart piece of steamed-up Jazz Age storytelling.

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Time Out by Keith Uhlich

For an especially egregious bit of miscasting, look no further than Mena Suvari, star of this tony adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel about a disintegrating marriage.

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New York Post by Kyle Smith

Everybody flirts with everyone else as director John Irvin pours on a level of shopping-mall-gift-shop-kitsch that would shame Wayne Newton.

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Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

Director John Irvin, whose hapless 40-plus-year résumé runs from early Schwarzenegger to late Harold Pinter, never gets in the way, but the resulting sangria cocktail is mild, unchallenging, and kinda dull.

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Movieline by Michelle Orange

Though based on the Hemingway novel published 25 years after his death, Hemingway's Garden of Eden feels more like the result of an ungodly alliance between Harlequin house writers and the cut-and-paste masterminds at A&E Biography.

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The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

The film isn't erotic or profound. It is occasionally comic, though-like reading the finalists for one of those Bad Sex In Fiction awards.

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Variety by Ronnie Scheib

Garden of Eden sends sleek, half-nude bodies glumly cavorting through lush Riviera landscapes in a paradigm of unintentional camp.

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