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Apr
15
2006

San Fran Report: Eden Review

Posted by Todd Brown at 8:26pm.

Posted in Film & DVD Reviews , Drama, Continental Europe & Russia, San Francisco 2006.

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Though the San Francisco International Film Festival doesn’t begin rolling for another few days we’ve got a man inside and he’s hard at work hitting advance screenings and putting together his thoughts on what’s worthwhile and what’s not. Big thanks to Michael Guillen for his in depth coverage, which you will also find on his own site, The Evening Class.

Jay Weissberg’s Variety review states Eden misses its mark even as Weissberg concedes that it won the Lions Award and the Tiscali Audience Award at its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival earlier this year. Two awards and nearly 10,000 Euros: Who to believe?

Even German director and writer Michael Hofmann stated in an interview after his win, “I truly love my film, but I worried it might be a bit on the long side. Though no matter how often I watched it, that love remained. Some of the people I screened it to in Germany had some criticism, so I started to have some doubts too. But the audience decides. That’s the magic of cinema.”

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Reader Comments

  1. jon pais 04/15/2006 @ 11:14pm

    Michael’s writing is a joy to read. Hope we’ll be hearing more from him in the near future.

  2. x 04/16/2006 @ 2:03am

    He’s a MACHINE! ^_^

    Thanks a lot, Michael. Much appreciated.

  3. Maya 04/23/2006 @ 9:50am

    I don’t know how much of a machine I am. I feel more like the Tin Man squeaking, “Oil can! Oil can!” But thanks very much for the kind words.
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