🎬 ‘Eden’ Review: Ron Howard and His All-Star Cast Mount a Darkly Funny Adult Spin on ‘Lord of the F📽

Eden review Ron Howard and his all-star cast mount  a Darkly funny adult spin on Lord of the FL Dr   friederick Ritter Jude Law is loathed to repeat  anyone else so when his writer block finds him   spitting out quotes from bigger better far more  well-known philosophers he knows things are going   badly things have in fact been going badly for a  very long time as is prone to happen when someone   moves to an uninhabited Island and attempts to  carve out a new world order still had Friedrich   a very real person been a bit more comfortable  with the idea of repeating someone else he likely   would have found plenty of comfort in Jean Paul  sra's perpetually precient observation that hell   is other people such as the thrust of Ron Howard's  Darkly funny Eden a fact-based story that follows   what happened after freed and his partner dor stch  Vanessa Kirby moved to a galpagos island floriana   to be precise after the end of World War I and  the start of all the stuff that would lead to   World War II in search of a very different way  of living only to find that they simply can't   shake the stuff that tends to make Society so  unbearable read other people Frederick likes to   act as if he's above it all but at a certain point  he started sending out missives to the the outside   world touting the paradise he and Dora have  created so they shouldn't be so surprised when   people start showing up seeking a similar life oh  but are they ever Frederick's dream is to by his   own admission save Humanity but the furthest  he got in that process was to move away from   the entire world to bang away at his typewriter  dreaming up nonsense philosophy he's completely   and hilariously unable to live out himself while  he Dora who has Ms which they try to clear with   meditation sex and hard living have carved out  a bit of a living on floriana it's precarious   by every measure everything on this island can  kill you Dora tells their newest visitors and   it's perhaps the most true thing anyone says  throughout Noah Pink's clever screenplay those   new visitors the Whitmer family father hin  Daniel BR second wife Margaret Sydney Sweeney   who gets one hell of a go For Broke sequence in  this film and Ill son Harry Jonathan tidle the   family has been enthralled by what they've read  in the German papers of friederick and Dora's   adventures and they want in they show up in kicky  little Camp clothes toing butterfly Nets storyy   at the whole Affair friederick and Dora promptly  send them up the hill to a notoriously infertile   slice of the island Dora's beloved burrow helps  and that will be the last time that happens and   and expect they'll abandon the whole Affair  in weeks they don't things are already feeling   Lord of the Flies why enough already but with a  distinctly adult bent and plenty of unexpected   humor and that's before baroness aloise boset  the Wagner warhorn anid armos a scream in a   cast filled with standout performances shows  up all delusional big talk about building the   world's most luxurious hotel for millionaires  only most of it helped along mightily be her   dedic ated Cotter of manservants and lovers  including Felix camerer and Toby Wallace on an   island filled with blinkered people and that's  being generous aloise is Queen well that's the   plan as she starts pulling strings between her  friends and neighbors all of it both obvious and   understandable and truly entertaining enough  that you'll laugh out loud when La proclaims   Deus X makina at a plot twist that is precisely  that Eden collapses Eden does not Howard and his   stacked cast keep the entire thing chugging right  along toward the inevitable and even that doesn't   feel so expected if only because of how damn  funny this trip Straight to Hell feels a certain   amount of creative license helps goodness knows  no one on floriana looked quite as good as they   were coming undone in increasingly dark manners  even as occasionally bloodless drama feels like   a whiff listen for a film in which Sydney Sweeney  fights off a pack of fural dogs while giving birth   by herself things could and maybe even should feel  a lot more [ __ ] up than what we get in Eden but   what we do get from Howard's latest is a strong  reminder of his handle on not just craft and   casting but also story and tone no film about the  utter demise of a supposed Utopia a real one to   boot and the utter infallibility of human beings  should be this fun but we're lucky this one is it   helps the hard truths go down easier especially  about who we all are as people you know hellish