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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=http://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 web|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|website=Billboard|accessdate=14 May 2015}}</ref> |
'''''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=http://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 web|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|website=Billboard|accessdate=14 May 2015}}</ref> |
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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. The characters enter a rave, Paul moves through the crowd. 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. Next shot 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, 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 and drop Da funk. They wait nervously for the atmosphere to re-establish it self, which it does. The woman who was earlier told she doesn't understand music comments that the track is not bad, but she preferred 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 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 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 character are working on a track, trying to decide between a number of almost identical drum sounds. One is dismissed by Paul because its ‘too feminine’ At first the other man, who is wearing a technics t-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 a husband and 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 good bye to everyone, 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. 2013- 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 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- 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 to the sound of ‘Within’, a very sad daft punk song. The final scene: Paul lies in bed reading a book of poems his new girlfriend has given him. She has marked one that reminds her of him. The words of the poem appear on the screen and we hear her voice and see a shadowy image of her reading it superimposed over the image of Paul reading it. |
Plot: 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. The characters enter a rave, Paul moves through the crowd. 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. Next shot 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, 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 and drop Da funk. They wait nervously for the atmosphere to re-establish it self, which it does. The woman who was earlier told she doesn't understand music comments that the track is not bad, but she preferred 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 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 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 character are working on a track, trying to decide between a number of almost identical drum sounds. One is dismissed by Paul because its ‘too feminine’ At first the other man, who is wearing a technics t-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 a husband and 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 good bye to everyone, 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. 2013- 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 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- 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 to the sound of ‘Within’, a very sad daft punk song. The final scene: Paul lies in bed reading a book of poems his new girlfriend has given him. She has marked one that reminds her of him. The words of the poem appear on the screen and we hear her voice and see a shadowy image of her reading it superimposed over the image of Paul reading it. |
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| Directed by | Mia Hansen-Løve |
| Written by | Mia Hansen-Løve Sven Hansen-Løve |
| Produced by | Charles Gillibert Jimmy Price |
| Starring | Félix de Givry Pauline Etienne Golshifteh Farahani |
| Cinematography | Denis Lenoir |
| Edited by | Marion Monnier |
| Music by | Daft Punk Joe Smooth Frankie Knuckles Terry Hunter |
Production company | CG Cinéma |
| Distributed by | Broad Green Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 131 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Languages | French English |
| Budget | $5.2 million |
| Box office | $63,345[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]
Plot: 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. The characters enter a rave, Paul moves through the crowd. 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. Next shot 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, 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 and drop Da funk. They wait nervously for the atmosphere to re-establish it self, which it does. The woman who was earlier told she doesn't understand music comments that the track is not bad, but she preferred 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 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 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 character are working on a track, trying to decide between a number of almost identical drum sounds. One is dismissed by Paul because its ‘too feminine’ At first the other man, who is wearing a technics t-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 a husband and 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 good bye to everyone, 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. 2013- 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 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- 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 to the sound of ‘Within’, a very sad daft punk song. The final scene: Paul lies in bed reading a book of poems his new girlfriend has given him. She has marked one that reminds her of him. The words of the poem appear on the screen and we hear her voice and see a shadowy image of her reading it superimposed over the image of Paul reading it.
Cast
- 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
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
Eden received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 83% based on 92 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 82 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "universal acclaim."[10]
References
- ^ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=14784
- ^ "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. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- ^ "Kinology Embarks On Mia Hansen-Love's 'Eden'". Variety. 16 January 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- ^ "Eden (2015)". Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^ http://www.metacritic.com/movie/eden-2014