Hemingway's Garden of Eden
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28 out of 100

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  • Summary: Set in the jazz age of the 1920s, the story follows a successful young American writer, David Bourne, and his beautiful wife, Catherine, on their extended honeymoon in Europe. Catherine soon becomes restless and starts to test her husband's devotion, pushing him to the limits of her erotic imagination and luring a sultry Italian girl Marita into their inner circle. With the stakes continually ratcheting higher, the events that follow change their lives forever. (Roadside Attractions)… Expand

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  2. Mixed: 5 out of 9
  3. Negative: 4 out of 9
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    Dec 9, 2010
    60
    Handsomely presented, with locations in Spain and Africa, the film at moments accomplishes its ambitions of being a tart piece of steamed-up Jazz Age storytelling.
  2. Movieline
    Reviewed by: Michelle Orange
    Dec 7, 2010
    50
    Though based on the Hemingway novel published 25 years after his death, Hemingway's Garden of Eden feels more like the result of an ungodly alliance between Harlequin house writers and the cut-and-paste masterminds at A&E Biography.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    Dec 7, 2010
    50
    Director John Irvin, whose hapless 40-plus-year résumé runs from early Schwarzenegger to late Harold Pinter, never gets in the way, but the resulting sangria cocktail is mild, unchallenging, and kinda dull.
  4. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    Dec 9, 2010
    33
    The film isn't erotic or profound. It is occasionally comic, though-like reading the finalists for one of those Bad Sex In Fiction awards.

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