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.
