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Eden

When You Start A Revolution, The Hardest Beat To Find Is Your Own

2014 · 2h 11m · R Drama, Music
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve

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Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.

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Fresh

Hansen-Love, who co-wrote the script along with her former-DJ brother Sven, zeroes in on the signature experiences of '90s club life with expert precision.

Andrew Barker, Variety
Fresh

The camerawork is so fluid and the settings so brimming with detail that one feels washed away by the film, recognizing the hero's decline only when he does-that is, too late.

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Eden is indeed as low-key as anything Hansen-Love has done, though it conveys a sense of risk that feels new for her -- both in the scope of the story and in specific choices she makes.

Jon Frosch, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh

An intimate epic to sink into; it uses the unchanging age of its actors, whose characters stubbornly resist changing for two decades, as a melancholy commentary on the maturation process.

A.A. Dowd, AV Club
Fresh

Delicate, lifelike filmmaking ...

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club

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