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| name = Eden |
| name = Eden |
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| image = Eden (2014 film) POSTER.jpg |
| image = Eden (2014 film) POSTER.jpg |
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| caption = Theatrical release poster |
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| director = [[Mia Hansen-Løve]] |
| director = [[Mia Hansen-Løve]] |
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| producer = Charles Gillibert |
| producer = Charles Gillibert |
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| writer = Mia Hansen-Løve |
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* Mia Hansen-Løve |
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* Sven Hansen-Løve |
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| starring = Félix de Givry<br>[[Pauline Etienne]]<br />[[Golshifteh Farahani]] |
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* Félix de Givry |
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* [[Pauline Etienne]] |
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* Hugo Conzelmann |
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* Roman Kolinka |
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* [[Vincent Macaigne]] |
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* [[Greta Gerwig]] |
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* [[Laura Smet]] |
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* [[Golshifteh Farahani]] |
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* [[Vincent Lacoste]] |
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* Arnaud Azoulay |
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* [[Zita Hanrot]] |
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* Paul Spera |
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* Ugo Bienvenu |
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* Laurent Cazanave |
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* Sigrid Bouaziz |
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* Léa Rougeron |
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* Olivia Ross |
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* Pierre-François Garel |
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* David Blot |
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* François Buot |
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* Ludovic Bergery |
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* Clara 3000 |
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* [[Tony Humphries (musician)|Tony Humphries]] |
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* [[La India]] |
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* Arnold Jarvis |
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* [[Terry Hunter]] |
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* [[Arsinée Khanjian]] |
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* [[Brady Corbet]] |
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| music = [[Daft Punk]]<br>[[Joe Smooth]]<br>[[Frankie Knuckles]]<br>[[Terry Hunter]] |
| music = [[Daft Punk]]<br>[[Joe Smooth]]<br>[[Frankie Knuckles]]<br>[[Terry Hunter]] |
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| cinematography = [[Denis Lenoir]] |
| cinematography = [[Denis Lenoir]] |
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| editing = [[Marion Monnier]] |
| editing = [[Marion Monnier]] |
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| studio = CG Cinéma |
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* CG Cinéma |
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* [[Groupe Canal+|Canal+]] |
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| distributor = [[Broad Green Pictures]] |
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* OCS |
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| distributor = [[Ad Vitam (company)|Ad Vitam Distribution]] |
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| released = {{Film date|2014|9|5|[[2014 Toronto International Film Festival|TIFF]]|2014|11|19|France|df=yes}} |
| released = {{Film date|2014|9|5|[[2014 Toronto International Film Festival|TIFF]]|2014|11|19|France|df=yes}} |
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| runtime = 131 minutes |
| runtime = 131 minutes |
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| language = French<br>English |
| language = French<br>English |
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| budget = $5.2 million |
| budget = $5.2 million |
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| gross = $ |
| gross = $507,914<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=eden.htm|title=Eden|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|accessdate=July 29, 2017}}</ref> |
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'''''Eden''''' is a 2014 French drama film directed by [[Mia Hansen-Løve]] and co-written with Sven Hansen-Løve. The film stars Félix de Givry and [[Pauline Etienne]]. The film premiered in the Special Presentations section of the [[2014 Toronto International Film Festival]].<ref name="Indiewire">{{cite web |url= |
'''''Eden''''' is a 2014 French drama film directed by [[Mia Hansen-Løve]] and co-written with Sven Hansen-Løve. The film stars Félix de Givry and [[Pauline Etienne]]. The film premiered in the Special Presentations section of the [[2014 Toronto International Film Festival]].<ref name="Indiewire">{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/tiff-toronto-intl-film-festival-gala-special-presentations-1201266480/ |title=Toronto Film Festival Lineup |accessdate=22 July 2014 |work=Variety}}</ref> It was also screened in the 52nd edition of the [[New York Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2014/films/eden |title=Eden |accessdate=18 September 2014 |work=Film Society of Lincoln Center}}</ref> and the [[BFI London Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=eden |title=Eden |accessdate=18 September 2014 |work=BFI}}</ref> The film's U.S. theatrical release was 19 June 2015.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Payne|first1=Chris|title=Daft Punk-Inspired Film 'Eden' Drops Trailer: Get Your Parisian Rave On|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/6568213/daft-punk-eden-film-trailer|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=14 May 2015}}</ref> It was the first film to be released by [[Broad Green Pictures]]. |
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== Plot == |
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The film opens in 1992 outside a rave in the woods somewhere near Paris. Background chat is audible, and centres around drugs and other parties. The central character Paul, who will become a DJ, leaves to sit in the woods and trip out by himself. A friend comes to find him and they return to the party, which is now over. Next shot, we see Paul sneaking out of his cultured family home to attend another party. He joins his 2 best friends, his future dj partner, and a graphic artist who is always drawing in a notebook and will go on to do the artwork for their parties. There is a crowd of people, mostly men, at a train station, waiting to head to the party. Paul points out two of the men to his friends as ‘music buffs’. They later become Daft punk. 3 years pass and the friends are beginning to set up a night called Cheers. In his bedroom, Paul flicks through his records, 3 other characters sit on the floor of his room, one of them has drawn a flyer for Cheers, a woman suggests it may be too retro, a man corrects her, no it is just right. The characters enter another rave, Paul moves through the crowd. We see the graphic artist tell a woman that she doesn't understand music. Paul is riding his bike wearing a rough trade record bag. He enters the apartment of his american girlfriend. She is an aspiring writer, he has read one of her stories and tells her he likes it, but she does not seem convinced. Cut to her in bed naked, post fuck, He plays her a record, she says ‘it's great to dance to but i don't know if i would listen to it everyday at home’ he replies quickly that he would. Paul is at a house party. The 2 music buffs, who are now Daft Punk, enter carrying a crate of records. They move to the decks and line up their track Da funk. They fade the music that is playing out, to disapproving sounds from the crowd. They drop Da funk and wait nervously for the atmosphere to re-establish itself, which it does. The woman who was earlier told she doesn't understand music comments that the track is not bad, but she prefered what was playing before. She is again told she doesn't understand music, this time by Paul who says da funk ‘fucking rocks’. On the day of the first ever Cheers party Paul finds a letter on his doormat from the american girlfriend saying she is moving back to new york and wont make it to the party. We hear her voice and see a shadowy image of her reading the letter superimposed over the image of Paul reading the letter. 1999: The girl who doesn't understand music is now paul’s girlfriend. the cracks in their lifestyle are starting to show, they all do alot of drugs, paul ‘needs a break from parties’ he is broke and has messed up at university. The characters start to wonder if their tinnitus is really brain tumours and discuss how they freak out at night on come downs. 2001: a trip to new york, One more time by Daft Punk plays over footage of a very shit looking daytime Cheers party at MOMA PS1. Paul visits his american ex, who has now had her stories published and is pregnant. Paul’s friends begin to warn him he is doing too much coke. They hear that the graphic artist, who refused to join them in america and seemed depressed when they left, has killed himself. Paul leaves a radio session to cry. 2007 Daft Punk have achieved global success while Cheer’s musical style has started to date. A promoter tells them they need to update their sound: ‘you don't change, but audiences do’. Paul and another charecter are working on a track, trying to decide between a number of almost identical drum sounds. One is dismissed by paul for being ‘too feminine’ At first the other man (who is wearing a technics shirt) doesn't understand how a kick drum could sound feminine, then he gets it ‘i see what you mean… thin… superficial’ By 2008 the girl who doesn't understand music is no longer Paul’s girlfriend and lives by the sea with her 3 children. Paul visits her, he observes that in 15 years one of her daughters will be 19, and instead of the mother he can marry the daughter. She replies, ‘find a new line of work, she wont want an old has been dj’ 2010 Cheers have now truly flopped. We see the characters at their own poorly attended NYE party. The camera follows a woman moving round the dance floor saying goodbye to everyone as she has to take her child home while the father stays out. Paul has a bitchy looking girlfriend who makes him buy her champagne and wont sleep with him. By the time Paul is 34 things are going very wrong, he has a beard, is bankrupt and is djing wedding parties and still doing a lot of coke. He has another different girlfriend who does more coke than he does. The girl who doesn’t understand music tells him she was pregnant with his child but aborted it. Paul has a breakdown and has to tell his mum he has a drug problem. The next time we see him he has a job selling vacuum cleaners, is off coke and is attending an evening class in literature. At the evening class he finds another girlfriend, who only ‘vaguely’ knows what house music is, but loves Daft Punk. 2014- The penultimate scene: Daft punk, who now also have beards, enter a club. Paul is there too but he is not drinking. He dejectedly watches A female dj play music from her macbook. The scene is overdubbed with a very sad Daft Punk song ‘Within’. The final scene is Paul in bed reading a poem his new girlfriend says reminds her of him. We hear her voice and see a shadowy image of her reading it superimposed over the image of him reading it. |
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Paul Vallée, a young French student, enjoys going to raves. He eventually partners with his friend Stan to form a DJ duo called Cheers around the same time as two of his other friends [[Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo|Guy-Man]] and [[Thomas Bangalter|Thomas]] form the DJ duo [[Daft Punk]]. He is hoping to become a writer, but he gradually abandons his thesis as his DJing career takes off. In 2001, he and his friend Cyril are invited to New York to DJ at [[MoMA PS1]], but Cyril refuses to go, having finally decided to commit to the graphic novel he had wanted to write. Paul's time in New York is a success, but upon his return he learns that Cyril committed [[suicide]] shortly after completing the work. |
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For a while, Paul is a successful DJ, but by 2006 his spending begins to catch up with him as his audience shrinks. He turns to his mother to keep him financially afloat. As his life begins to crumble, he runs into an old girlfriend, Louise. He hopes they can reconnect romantically, but she informs him that she had had an [[abortion]] after becoming pregnant with their child. Paul has a [[nervous breakdown]] and confesses to his mother that he is [[cocaine addiction|addicted]] to [[cocaine]] and is deeply in debt. |
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By 2013, Paul has managed to rehabilitate his life and works for a vacuum repair company by day, while attending a creative writing workshop by night. At one of the workshop sessions, he talks to a young girl who asks him what he does. When he tells her he is a former DJ who specialized in garage music, she admits that the only techno she listens to is [[Daft Punk]]. Later, Paul goes to a club where he sees Guy-Man and Thomas again. |
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== Cast == |
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== Production == |
== Production == |
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[[File:Sven Hansen-Løve and Félix de Givry 4.jpg|thumb|right|Sven Hansen-Løve ( |
[[File:Sven Hansen-Løve and Félix de Givry 4.jpg|thumb|right|Sven Hansen-Løve (right) served as the inspiration for Paul, played by Félix de Givry (left).]] |
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The film is loosely based on [[Mia Hansen-Løve]]'s brother Sven's life. In addition to being the inspiration behind the film he also co-wrote the script. |
The film is loosely based on [[Mia Hansen-Løve]]'s brother Sven's life. In addition to being the inspiration behind the film he also co-wrote the script. |
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The film took three years to be produced in part because obtaining the rights to the music was so expensive. Hansen-Løve went through two different producers over the course of the pre-production process and was only able to obtain the necessary rights to license the music after [[Daft Punk]] agreed to license their music for the lowest possible fee causing other musicians to join them.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kinos-Goodin|first1=Jesse|title=TIFF 2014: Daft Punk's surprising role in French house music movie Eden|url=http://music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2014/9/TIFF-2014-Daft-Punks-surprising-role-in-French-house-music-movie-Eden|accessdate=25 September 2014|date=Sep 11, 2014}}</ref> |
The film took three years to be produced in part because obtaining the rights to the music was so expensive. Hansen-Løve went through two different producers over the course of the pre-production process and was only able to obtain the necessary rights to license the music after [[Daft Punk]] agreed to license their music for the lowest possible fee causing other musicians to join them.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kinos-Goodin|first1=Jesse|title=TIFF 2014: Daft Punk's surprising role in French house music movie Eden|url=http://music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2014/9/TIFF-2014-Daft-Punks-surprising-role-in-French-house-music-movie-Eden|accessdate=25 September 2014|date=Sep 11, 2014}}</ref> |
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Filming began in November 2013 and was completed on 31 January 2014.<ref>{{cite news |
Filming began in November 2013 and was completed on 31 January 2014.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mia Hansen-Love Helming Dance World Saga 'Eden' Starring Brady Corbet and Greta Gerwig|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/mia-hansen-love-helming-dance-world-saga-eden-starring-brady-corbet-and-greta-gerwig-20130904|accessdate=8 April 2014|newspaper=Indiewire|date=4 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006132106/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/mia-hansen-love-helming-dance-world-saga-eden-starring-brady-corbet-and-greta-gerwig-20130904|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Kinology Embarks On Mia Hansen-Love's 'Eden'|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/kinology-embarks-on-mia-hansen-loves-eden-1201060827/|accessdate=8 April 2014|newspaper=Variety|date=16 January 2014}}</ref> |
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==Reception== |
==Reception== |
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''Eden'' received generally positive reviews from critics. On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has a rating of |
''Eden'' received generally positive reviews from critics. On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has a rating of 84% based on 97 reviews and an average rating of 7.4/10. The consensus statement reads, "''Eden'' uses 1990s club culture as the appropriately intoxicating backdrop for a sensitive, low-key look at aging and the price of pursuing one's dreams."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eden_2015/|title=Eden (2015)|website=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate=February 15, 2018}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a score of 81 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/eden-2014|title=Eden (2015) Reviews|publisher=Metacritic|accessdate=15 February 2018}}</ref> |
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On ''[[The Guardian|The Guardian's]]'' "The 100 best films of the 21st century" list, Eden is ranked 90th.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/13/100-best-films-movies-of-the-21st-century|title=The 100 best films of the 21st century|work=The Guardian|date=September 13, 2019|accessdate=August 28, 2020}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 00:51, 10 July 2024
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_POSTER.jpg) Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Mia Hansen-Løve |
| Written by |
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| Produced by | Charles Gillibert |
| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Denis Lenoir |
| Edited by | Marion Monnier |
| Music by | Daft Punk Joe Smooth Frankie Knuckles Terry Hunter |
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| Distributed by | Ad Vitam Distribution |
Release dates |
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Running time | 131 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Languages | French English |
| Budget | $5.2 million |
| Box office | $507,914[1] |
Eden is a 2014 French drama film directed by Mia Hansen-Løve and co-written with Sven Hansen-Løve. The film stars Félix de Givry and Pauline Etienne. The film premiered in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[2] It was also screened in the 52nd edition of the New York Film Festival[3] and the BFI London Film Festival.[4] The film's U.S. theatrical release was 19 June 2015.[5] It was the first film to be released by Broad Green Pictures.
Plot
[edit]Paul Vallée, a young French student, enjoys going to raves. He eventually partners with his friend Stan to form a DJ duo called Cheers around the same time as two of his other friends Guy-Man and Thomas form the DJ duo Daft Punk. He is hoping to become a writer, but he gradually abandons his thesis as his DJing career takes off. In 2001, he and his friend Cyril are invited to New York to DJ at MoMA PS1, but Cyril refuses to go, having finally decided to commit to the graphic novel he had wanted to write. Paul's time in New York is a success, but upon his return he learns that Cyril committed suicide shortly after completing the work.
For a while, Paul is a successful DJ, but by 2006 his spending begins to catch up with him as his audience shrinks. He turns to his mother to keep him financially afloat. As his life begins to crumble, he runs into an old girlfriend, Louise. He hopes they can reconnect romantically, but she informs him that she had had an abortion after becoming pregnant with their child. Paul has a nervous breakdown and confesses to his mother that he is addicted to cocaine and is deeply in debt.
By 2013, Paul has managed to rehabilitate his life and works for a vacuum repair company by day, while attending a creative writing workshop by night. At one of the workshop sessions, he talks to a young girl who asks him what he does. When he tells her he is a former DJ who specialized in garage music, she admits that the only techno she listens to is Daft Punk. Later, Paul goes to a club where he sees Guy-Man and Thomas again.
Cast
[edit]- Félix de Givry as Paul
- Pauline Étienne as Louise
- Vincent Macaigne as Arnaud
- Hugo Conzelmann as Stan
- Zita Hanrot as Anaïs
- Roman Kolinka as Cyril
- Ugo Bienvenu as Quentin
- Paul Spera as Guillaume
- Greta Gerwig as Julia
- Laurent Cazanave as Nico
- Vincent Lacoste as Thomas
- Arnaud Azoulay as Guy-Man
- Sigrid Bouaziz as Anne-Claire
- Golshifteh Farahani as Yasmin
- Laura Smet as Margot
- Brady Corbet as Larry
- Claire Tran as Midori
Production
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The film is loosely based on Mia Hansen-Løve's brother Sven's life. In addition to being the inspiration behind the film he also co-wrote the script.
The film took three years to be produced in part because obtaining the rights to the music was so expensive. Hansen-Løve went through two different producers over the course of the pre-production process and was only able to obtain the necessary rights to license the music after Daft Punk agreed to license their music for the lowest possible fee causing other musicians to join them.[6]
Filming began in November 2013 and was completed on 31 January 2014.[7][8]
Reception
[edit]Eden received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 84% based on 97 reviews and an average rating of 7.4/10. The consensus statement reads, "Eden uses 1990s club culture as the appropriately intoxicating backdrop for a sensitive, low-key look at aging and the price of pursuing one's dreams."[9] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 81 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[10]
On The Guardian's "The 100 best films of the 21st century" list, Eden is ranked 90th.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Eden". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 29, 2017.
- ^ "Toronto Film Festival Lineup". Variety. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ^ "Eden". Film Society of Lincoln Center. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
- ^ "Eden". BFI. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
- ^ Payne, Chris. "Daft Punk-Inspired Film 'Eden' Drops Trailer: Get Your Parisian Rave On". Billboard. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
- ^ Kinos-Goodin, Jesse (Sep 11, 2014). "TIFF 2014: Daft Punk's surprising role in French house music movie Eden". Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ "Mia Hansen-Love Helming Dance World Saga 'Eden' Starring Brady Corbet and Greta Gerwig". Indiewire. 4 September 2013. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- ^ "Kinology Embarks On Mia Hansen-Love's 'Eden'". Variety. 16 January 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- ^ "Eden (2015)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
- ^ "Eden (2015) Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ^ "The 100 best films of the 21st century". The Guardian. September 13, 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
External links
[edit]- Eden at IMDb
- Official website(in French)