Ron Howard, director, "Eden". A rollercoaster ride on human flaws and dreams , in a remote island in the Galapagos. From a real story.
Ron Howard inaugurates the 42 Torino Film Festival with the international premiere of “Eden“, his last intense drama with Jude Law, Ana De Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Bruhl and Sydney Sweeney. The director is also the recipient of the Stella Della Mole Award, that the national Museum of Cinema of Torino gives to outstanding film personality for their work and career.
A film with strong female characters
Ron Howard chose three very intense and completely different actress to play the three women that in the filma re those who carry the lives of their men, with complete opposite results and motivations, but all with the same strength and determination. The cast was made on underlining those difference and that common force.
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"Eden", interview with the director Ron HowardAngelo Acerbi
Dr. Friedrich Ritter and his wife Dora Strauch are two European idealists who flee Germany in 1929, repudiating the bourgeois values they believe are destroying the true nature of humanity, and move to the uninhabited island of Floreana, in the Galapagos islands.
But their coveted solitude doesn’t last long.
They are initially joined by Margaret and Heinz Wittmer, serious and competent colonists, and later by the baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn accompanied by her two lovers, an Ecuadorian servant, and a piano, with the intention of opening a luxury hotel on the island. The bad weather, the wild fauna, and the total lack of comforts and civilization make their cohabitation very difficult but the greatest challenge will be coexisting with their desperate neighbors who are willing to do anything to assert themselves.
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