I watched this film during the graveyard hours of British television. It is one of the most boring, tiresome and uninteresting I have ever seen, and the free-wheeling style of the direction bored me to tears. I remember the 1990's very well and it was as boringly narcissistic as this film portrays it to be. Cool those years tried to be, and the cast of this film do their best to be as cool and boring as the period. Now they are all fathers and mothers and some of the more enlightened will realise how damaging the years have been since then. The world of music is relentlessly heterosexual ( there are a few veiled ant-gay comments in the film which accentuated this ), so let us blame that on the characters and not the director. The first half is a bombardment of house music etc, etc and you can walk out of the room, eat and drink and come back to the film missing nothing. It deals with a young man who believes he is entitled to waste his life on perpetual excitement and of course the moral is he somewhat fails. His companions, and this film is awash with similar wasters all live ( well, to me anyway ) in a Paris as superficial as a glitter ball and fly off to America as most people would take a bus. They live for fashion and the moment. I did not care a toss for any of them, and the lead actor did nothing on the acting level to save the film. Privileged they rule their world, and now those similar people who live in Paris should watch a real film like ' Les Miserables ' ( nothing to do with Victor Hugo ) and also ' La Haine ' which they probably ignored at the time. Plus the glamour of the images only adds to the impression of how absolutely fabulous it all was. A 2 for the director who made ' L'Avenir ' ridiculously titled ' Things to Come ' which I did like.
Review of Eden
