‘Eden’ Review: Jude Law, Ana De Armas And Sydney Sweeney Steam Up Ron Howard’s Real-Life Island Melodrama

‘Eden’ Review: Jude Law, Ana de Armas And Sydney Sweeney Steam Up Ron Howard’s Real-Life Island Melodrama

I thought Ron Howard couldn’t get any darker than his 2003 Western The Missing, but with his latest Eden he comes pretty close. This is a true story and Howard’s film, a 15-year passion project of his to bring to the screen, follows the real details fairly closely, something easy to check since filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine made a fascinating documentary on the subject in 2014 called The Galapagos Affair: Satan Comes to Eden. With…

Movie Review: Ron Howard's 'Eden' brings 1920s chaos on a Galápagos island to life

What if nine Europeans, disillusioned by mass poverty and social unrest in a 1920s post-Great War Germany, attempt to start anew on a Galápagos island