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Eden
Liberation Entertainment

Eden reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 63 Metascore out of 100
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Eileen Walsh, Aidan Kelly, Padraic Delaney, Karl Shiels, Lesley Conroy, and Kate O'Toole

Breda and Billy Farrell are a seemingly happy, normal couple approaching their tenth anniversary. In private, however, their marriage shows signs of strain. As Billy begins to obsess over a younger woman, Breda desperately searches for a way to preserve their bond. (Liberation Entertainment)


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Eugene O'Brien  
DIRECTED BY: Declan Reicks  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: November 14, 2008 
RUNNING TIME: 83 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Ireland 

What The Critics Said

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80
Village Voice F. X. Feeney
This portrait of an imploding marriage is remarkable for every reason that counts in a good film.
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80
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
A picture so modest and minor-key that the emotional bruise it leaves may take days to develop.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
A compelling Irish drama.
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70
The Hollywood Reporter 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.
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70
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
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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67
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Eden lacks the technique to give its stifled domestic-erotic feelings their full power.
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60
New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
This domestic drama from the producers of "Once" could be about the pair from that gentle romance - a decade later.
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60
Los Angeles Times Sheri Linden
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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60
Variety Ronnie Scheib
Picture loses its delicate edge when it builds to a prescribed dramatic flashpoint within an overly compressed timeframe
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50
New York Post Kyle Smith
An Irish indie that is well-observed and well-acted - but ultimately, not much more exciting than the love lives of its lead characters.
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50
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Eden is "Once" after two kids and 10 years of marriage have sucked the music out of life.
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50
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Although its low-key realism is admirable, Eden doesn't really work: the long silences, the aching stares, the telling props, Breda's quivering blues, Billy's drunkenness, his distraction. There might as well be a sign stuck to the Farrells' front door: Dysfunctional family lives here.
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