Irish Film Institute -EDEN

EDEN

Director: MIA HANSEN-LØVE

131 minutes, France, 2014, Colour, Subtitles, D-Cinema


This film was released on Friday 24th July 2015 and is no longer screening.

★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★ The Irish Times

Paul (Félix de Givry) is drawn into the world of dance music through illicit raves in Paris during the early 1990s. Seduced by the soulfulness of the Chicago House scene, Paul becomes a DJ and producer, watching on as his contemporaries Daft Punk release Da Funk and briefly make his city the hippest place on earth. Paul builds enough of a reputation to travel around the world sharing the music he loves, dabbling with many of the substances he is offered and enjoying numerous dalliances with women, including one kooky American who makes a lasting impression (a nice cameo from Greta Gerwig). But years of partying leave Paul in need of something more.

Mia Hansen-Løve’s moving and effective paean to club culture is both epic and intimate, telling a story that spans decades while being brilliantly insightful about how music matters in people’s lives. (Notes by Michael Hayden.)

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