Eden (2008) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 7 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Eden is "Once" after two kids and 10 years of marriage have sucked the music out of life.Read the full review
Eden lacks the technique to give its stifled domestic-erotic feelings their full power.Read the full review
Director Declan Recks underlines every emotion, every brooding pause, working against the spare dialogue with fancy-footwork camera moves and an insistent score.Read the full review
A compelling Irish drama.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
A picture so modest and minor-key that the emotional bruise it leaves may take days to develop.Read the full review
Picture loses its delicate edge when it builds to a prescribed dramatic flashpoint within an overly compressed timeframeRead the full review