The film portrays the loneliness that can stem from pursuing a singular passion at the expense of all else.

| Original Score: A | Oct 7, 2023

Hansen-Løve remains someone whose work should be eagerly anticipated, but this particular trajectory unnerves me.

| Jan 23, 2023

What's amazing about Eden, just like Hansen-Løve's last film, Goodbye First love, is her ability to make you aware of the poignancy of the passing of time in an extraordinarily personal way.

| Feb 21, 2021

Mia Hansen-Løve's Eden is an intimate epic, spanning twenty years without reveling in period detail, grand physical transformations, or double casting.

| Jan 13, 2021

Mia Hansen-Løve's fourth film, Eden... is arguably her most satisfying, and certainly the least emotionally restrained, work to date.

| Aug 19, 2020

Hansen-Love renders these two decades of the evolution of French house music as an ambitious, realistic look at a specific era in the life of both her main character and a musical genre.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 5, 2020

A beguiling, compelling, involving film that repays multiple viewings.

| Jun 26, 2020

[Although] de Givry's performance is quietly moving, one may have just hoped that Eden would get under its subject's skin a little bit more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 5, 2019

Somewhere in this film of club scenes that are often tedious and indistinguishable from each other is the bare bones of a decent story: what it's like to outlive the fashionability of one's talents and tastes.

| Mar 8, 2019

Eden's main strength is its ability to capture the sheer ragtag spirit of its DJs and to make that the trajectory of the story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018

I just want to watch, listen, and get down to Eden, which, thankfully, is long and meanders like a cloud. And in the way you do not ask where a cloud is going or where it is coming from-a cloud is just a cloud-you must not ask where Eden is going.

| Aug 23, 2018

"Eden" is almost as good as Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" at capturing a sense of time passing while its characters are busy living their lives.

| Feb 16, 2018

Eden forces a few things, but it's punctuated with enough moments of genuine exuberance and humour to offset its flaws.

| Sep 29, 2017

A a tour de force that's bound to give the French writer/director (Mia Hansen-Lve) the U.S. recognition she's long deserved.

| Aug 2, 2017

Although Eden's music is infectious and accurate for the era and scene, the film itself is less enjoyable. If Paul were not so drab and unengaging, it could have been the French club scene's Inside Llewyn Davis.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2016

Eden may especially resonate with those who've struggled and put their all into their art, only to see their colleagues succeed and pull up the ladder behind them. Plus, it has a good beat and you can dance to it.

| Dec 13, 2016

Eden, despite its celebrity cameos, never loses sight of French Touch's handmade garage origins.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2016

An impressive and suprisingly melancholy look at repetition in life, soundtracked by the recursive music of the French Touch scene.

| Original Score: Recommended | Mar 3, 2016

Only in retrospect could I understand Eden's careful delineation of temporal, emotional, and geographic properties:.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 26, 2016

[Eden] does, however, offer an intriguing insider's view of an important musical subculture, an insider's view that, crucially, remains rooted in the all-too-relatable reality from which the music itself is designed to offer temporary escape.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2015