Eden
| Release Date: June 19, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
18
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
IndieWireEric KohnSep 13, 2014
Portraying a generation so energized by possibilities that it was bound to be let down, Eden offers a wise assessment of the interplay between fantasy and reality on the path to adulthood. The seductive rhythms are a perfect match for a movie that analyzes the unstoppable flow of life. Read full review
90
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJun 18, 2015
Restrained but never tentative, remote yet enormously affecting, the movie’s evocation of artistic compulsion is accomplished with confidence and verve. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranJun 18, 2015
No matter what is going on, Hansen-Love's talent for bringing us inside a specific world makes Eden an experience we all can connect to. Read full review
90
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekJun 16, 2015
A quiet, raggedly beautiful mini-epic, Eden isn't a success story; it's a failure story. But it's also a glittering acknowledgement of the fact that failing is the only path toward growing. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerMolly EichelJul 3, 2015
Eden is the kind of movie that hits you when you least expect it. Just when I thought it was a mess, its aimlessness began to make complete sense. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 25, 2015
The Coens' film is a wisenheimer, a mordant black comedy. Eden is utterly different, more muted and humane in tone. It won't be enough for some audiences. Read full review
88
Boston GlobePeter KeoughJun 25, 2015
Unlike “Something in the Air,” or even “Saint Laurent,” Eden is utterly apolitical. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyJun 19, 2015
Eden is long, but Hansen-Love's style is so observant and specific that it is always a compelling watch and ends up being sneakily profound. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJun 17, 2015
A viewer is always aware that they are being shown a place and an era, which helps explain why Eden manages the tricky business of being a movie that is overtly about lost time, but which unfolds chronologically, without as much as a flashback. Read full review
83
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicSep 13, 2014
This isn’t a story of success and fortune, but a slice of life with a personal rhythm and a universal beat. Read full review
80
EmpireDan JolinJul 21, 2015
Partly the story of a music scene, but mostly the story of a man who realises that living the dream isn’t always the best thing for your life. Vivid, immersive and blessed with a perfectly nostalgic soundtrack. Read full review
80
Time OutChristopher TarantinoJun 18, 2015
At one point, Paul describes his music as “somewhere between euphoria and melancholy,” which is also an apt description of Eden itself. Read full review
80
The GuardianPaul MacInnesSep 13, 2014
Hansen-Løve has an acute eye for the details of Paul’s world. Glamour is twinned with mundanity, beauty with boorishness and friendship with selfishness, while artistic endeavour is undercut by self-indulgence. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschSep 13, 2014
This graceful, deeply affecting movie has a soulfulness and sweep that mark it as a step forward for Hansen-Løve. Read full review
80
VarietyAndrew BarkerSep 13, 2014
Hansen-Love, who co-wrote the script along with her former-DJ brother Sven, zeroes in on the signature experiences of ’90s club life with expert precision. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneJun 13, 2015
Every substrata of music geekdom deserves a period piece as intimate as Eden, Mia Hansen-Løve's swan song for the golden era of French house music. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJun 22, 2015
I can’t help thinking the movie’s amorphousness would have worked better with a more definite actor — someone who didn’t disappear so fully into the scene. Eden has a remarkable orbit, but it spins around a void. Read full review
70
The DissolveScott TobiasJun 17, 2015
It’s easier to tell the story of a smashing success or an utter failure, because there’s drama inherent to either scenario, but what Hansen-Løve accomplishes with Eden is trickier, a feeling of being adrift in a scene where people are already invited to lose themselves to dance. Read full review
60
CineVueBen NicholsonSep 13, 2014
A sense of humour and nostalgia are both employed successfully to skirt the potential inertia of Paul's slowly declining career, and though de Givry's performance is quietly moving, one may have just hoped that Eden would get under its subject's skin a little bit more. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaJul 2, 2015
The club scenes, initially exciting, are ultimately wearying, and the movie meanders about much of the time. Read full review
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