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Roadside Attractions Dusts Off ‘Garden Of Eden’

A film to screen adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s novel that hardly made a blip on the radar apart from an appearance at the Rome Film Festival in 2008, I think Roadside Attractions might have found their bargain bin equivalent in their latest pick-up.

A film to screen adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s novel that hardly made a blip on the radar apart from an appearance at the Rome Film Festival in 2008, I think Roadside Attractions might have found their bargain bin equivalent in their latest pick-up. The pic gets a December 10th release.

The John Irvin-directed Garden of Eden is set in the jazz age, and tells the story of a successful young American novelist (Jack Huston), previously an aviator during WWI, who embarks on an extended honeymoon across Europe with his wife (Mena Suvari). But when she brings in a sultry Italian girl (Caterina Murino) to spice things up with erotic games, their relationship comes under pressure. The novel was adapted by ex-Paris Review editor James Scott Linville. The book, Hemingway’s last, was published posthumously in 1986.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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