Watch: Garden of Eden 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – Set in the jazz age years, prior to the depression, the story follows a successful young American writer, David Bourne, and his beautiful new wife, Catherine, on their extended honeymoon in Europe. Catherine soon becomes restless and starts to tests her husband’s devotion, pushing him to the limits of her imagination. Already unsure of the games his wife is playing, David is both uncomfortable and curious when she brings a sultry Italian girl, Marita, to spice things up. As the erotic game reaches new levels, the events that follow will change their lives forever..
Plot: A young American writer completes his service in WWI and travels across Europe with his wife and her attractive Italian girlfriend. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.
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Medriocre but well acted
This is a very mediocre movie with really good actors who have done everything to give shape to this story. Mena Suvari and Caterina Murino are great in their roles even if these roles are incomplete for understand their stories. For Jack Huston I did not feel anything. He is just not the right actor for the role maybe, he seems too young and perfect to be credible. The story remains shallow, despite the inspiring beginning and how seductive the first 30 minutes looks – it then became flat. The characters are not developed enough to make them believable. They are a cool couple but without any reason to do what they do?. Sad to see what could be a good movie in the right hands. The photography and aesthetic in the movie is good, also beautiful locations, however the lack of depth make this almost disappear. I feel disappointed after watching it.
Nice try at difficult Hemingway story.
This film gets so much of Hemingway’s novel right, but it’s still necessary to point out the major flaws. After all, Hemingway spent years on this novel, and the greatly edited version that was eventually published (for good or bad) was a serious ground-breaker.The theme of wife Catherine wanting to game-play reverse gender role— pretending to be the man and calling her husband “girl” were critical themes in this novel of perversity. They take the walk-on-eggshells approach in the film, except for a few words during sex, they get identical unisex hair jobs, and that’s about as far as it goes.
Wife Catherine’s creation of a three-way sexual affair — bringing an extra girl into their marriage as a gift for her husband — is handled more completely. What is missing is to make you feel how very much this man loves his bride, how he accepts these perversions to please her (a normal man, even a tomcat like myself, would actually NOT want a spare woman, even a beautiful one, in his marriage) the perversions will sadly erode his love for the woman he loved before he knew her so well.
Two strong plus marks: This is the first and only Hemingway movie to reflect the frequent and heavy drinking in his novels. Second, is for the choice of the actress playing Catherine. Not a conventional beauty I’d say, and her face might be called funny-looking; but as she played Catherine she quietly radiated the intense sexuality of the character. I was wanting her maybe 90 seconds into the movie. Sure, this happens once in a while; not often to this degree. Hemingway made the reader feel the husband’s both love and passion beyond a shadow of a doubt.
This was obviously an important personal statement by Hemingway. He wanted to convey these sexual perversions were not “cool” things to brag about to the guys; but rather sad and tragic revelations about the unraveling of love in the circumstance described. The movie fails at this; Hem’s central point.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 37 min (97 min) (DVD) (USA), 1 hr 51 min (111 min) (original cut)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Thriller
Director John Irvin
Writer James Scott Linville, Ernest Hemingway
Actors Jack Huston, Mena Suvari, Caterina Murino
Country United Kingdom, Spain
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Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
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Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna Vivid 160T 8543, Eterna 250D 8563, Eterna 500T 8573)
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Printed Film Format 35 mm