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Director Declan Recks underlines every emotion, every brooding pause, working against the spare dialogue with fancy-footwork camera moves and an insistent score.
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Thrumming with anguish and erotic vitality, Eden paints a heartbreaking portrait of a newly affluent country (freed from dour priests, whiskey-soaked revolutionaries and shawl-clad women) afflicted with emotional growing pains.
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
A picture so modest and minor-key that the emotional bruise it leaves may take days to develop.
60
New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
This domestic drama from the producers of "Once" could be about the pair from that gentle romance - a decade later.
50
An Irish indie that is well-observed and well-acted - but ultimately, not much more exciting than the love lives of its lead characters.
67
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Eden lacks the technique to give its stifled domestic-erotic feelings their full power.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Ray Bennett
Well crafted and acted, Declan Recks' Irish domestic drama Eden, adapted from his own play by Eugene O'Brien, offers an intimate portrait of a husband and wife who have stopped communicating with each other.
60
Picture loses its delicate edge when it builds to a prescribed dramatic flashpoint within an overly compressed timeframe
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Eden is "Once" after two kids and 10 years of marriage have sucked the music out of life.