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| Eden [2007] | ![Eden [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-fGN1J3iL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Michael Hoffman
Actors: Josef Ostendorf, Charlotte Roche, Devid Striesow, Max Rudlinger, Leonie Stebb
Studio: Drakes Avenue Pictures
Category: DVD
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Language: German (Unknown)
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Running Time: 99 minutes
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Bizarre yet intriguing October 27, 2008
This movie was really different to anything I've seen before, and having food as the main theme (and an erotic one at that!) if you are over 18ish it will most likely leave you both aroused AND hungry!? Having seen it I really wouldn't describe it as a comedy. There are a few moments which are funny (laugh out loud funny!) but on the whole it is a very unusual film with a sinister undertone which really drew me in. Being spoken in German and subtitled I thought I may lose interest but I didn't at all. It was thoroughly engrossing. Not something I'd watch again, due to the plot I think it's a one-time kind of thing which wouldn't offer much from a second viewing - but pretty darned intriguing the first time round!
 Romantic comedy for people who take film very, very seriously October 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The film is called Eden, but the main character is the chef called Gregor whom she falls for in a rather platonic way, on account of his extraordinary cooking. Her strip-club-visiting husband finds out, and, under pressure from the family, eventually beats up Gregor when he comes to the door. In the ensuing chase Gregor, who is immensely obese, falls out of a tree and kills him. Following a spell in prison -- and having lost his own restaurant as a result of the pressure of Eden's husband's family -- he opens up the first chip stand in the world to get a Michelin star-rating, and they are briefly reunited.br /br /If this sounds like unlikely material for a comedy, then you are probably not taking it all seriously enough. Of course, you also need to remember that this film is in German with subtitles. This is really a minor European art film rather than a comedy in the British (or even American) sense. The romance is subdued, the characters downplayed, the cinematography more documentary than vivid.br /br /I can't say that I'm really going to watch this again. It plays like a one-hour ITV one-off drama, and, at its full length, is over-long.br /br /Probably (and regrettably) one to miss, unless you take your comedy very, very seriously.
Sweet, fulfilling dish. May 15, 2008
This is the classic tale of a blossoming romance between chef and married waitress. Their courtship is developed through the medium of food rather than taking on a more carnal approach, chef Gregor is celibate for health reasons, which helps provide some of the humour in this piece. While Gregors cooking stirs up passion in waitress Eden he finds it manifesting itself in the direction of her husband rather than him. Obviously Eden's husband is unhappily about their close foodie friendship and all the jealousy comes to a head in the satisfying conclusion. Well worth a watch.
Interesting film May 6, 2008
I very much enjoyed Eden, but I suspect it may appeal mostly to fans of German cinema, as it had the bittersweet and dark quality common to several German films I've seen.br /br /There's no need for a plot synopsis here, so I'll limit myself to saying that I liked this film for its almost childlike simplicity and charming quirkiness.
 Cold sick on toast April 8, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yuck. Ick. Ew. I tried to watch this three times before I made it past the opening scenes. (Was that an attempt at gastro-porn? Come back, Nigella, all is forgiven.) For a film about food, 'Eden' is about as appetising as cold sick on toast. Leading man Josef Ostendorf as overweight chef Gregor is equally uneasy on the eye, and it's not that I need my protagonists to look like Tom Cruise (far from it) but he's also a tantrum-throwing, po-faced, testicle-boiling mass of neuroses. Personally I wouldn't be too overjoyed if he scooped up my little girl in the park one day... br /br /After doing just that to young Leonie, he goes on to forge an unlikely friendship with her pretty mother, Eden, a waitress in her family's business. Friendship blossoms into something more, for Gregor at least. Too fat to contemplate the physical act of love, he shows his affection by cooking such apparently mouth-watering concoctions that Eden's life is never the same again. Allegedly. But everything looks so horrible! We're told that Gregor's speciality is 'erotic food', whatever that might be, but whoa there if you're salivating at the memory of Kim Basinger raiding Mickey Rourke's fridge. This is quite a different kettle of fish. Thank the lord there aren't any comedy Bratwurst scenes, but 'Eden' is basically one tedious close-up after another of the title character as she chews and smiles, chews and smiles. And then smiles some more, with a far-away look in her eyes. I can only assume her script had the word 'enigmatic' emblazoned across the top of every page. It's like standing in front of the Mona Lisa for a REALLY long time. br /br /Then her husband turns into a comic-book villain and we're asked to swallow the least appetising thing of all - a pointless and unbelievable ending. This looks and feels like a TV movie. The script is underdeveloped, the characters are one-dimensional, and the director is labouring under the illusion that lots of long silences are a short-cut to poignancy. If you skip the first few minutes then it's a passable way to spend an evening, I guess, but the truth is I'd be gutted if I'd paid for this. Go buy Ang Lee's 'Eat Drink Man Woman' instead if you're after a heart-warming foodie film. And you might actually feel like eating afterwards...
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