Eden Log
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Eden Log |
| Original title | Eden Log |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franck Vestiel |
| script |
Franck Vestiel , Pierre Bordage |
| production | Cédric Jimenez |
| music | Alex Cortés |
| camera | Reynald Capurro |
| cut | Nicolas Sarkissian |
| occupation | |
Eden Log (2007) is a dystopian science fiction film from director and co-writer Franck Vestiel. This is his directorial debut. The film was shot entirely with handheld cameras. In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on March 29, 2008 as part of the Fantasy Film Festival .
action
In an underground cave, Tolbiac wakes up naked and completely disoriented. He doesn't know who or where he is. As he gradually regains his strength, he begins to search for the exit, following a route from one light source to the next.
After initially only encountering corpses and not very informative video installations , he meets a person who seems to have grown together with a kind of root, but is still alive and tells him that he is the architect of this labyrinth and that everything is now over .
When the protagonist hears frightening sounds, he turns away and continues to look for the exit. He comes across various video installations, laboratories, mutated people and a botanist.
Together they look for the exit and work their way up level by level. When this is found and the mystery of the cave is almost solved, the woman has to discover that she is just as poisoned as all the other mutated people. So she goes back to the labyrinth.
It turns out that the maze is a root system that provides food for an energy-producing tree. The food for the tree, in turn, is people. Tolbiac then connects to the tree.
Reviews
The film magazine Cinema said the film was a "brilliant mix of arthouse allegory and sci-fi thriller". Jason Anderson called Eden Log one of the bravest and most ambitious science fiction films of the decade. Although the ending does not live up to the expectations it aroused by the opening scenes, this does not detract from the overall impression or the intoxicating fascination of the film.
Chris Cabin rates Eden Log significantly worse on filmcritic.com. The first 20 minutes would cast a spell on the viewer, but the challenges the protagonist would then have to face are more suitable for a video game programmer than a young filmmaker. The acting performance of the main character is a simple physical presence, which consists only of grumbling, sighing, running and every now and then a fight with a monster. For Tolbiac, nothing ever seems to be at stake. A cut by an hour would have been “much more gracious”, says Cabin.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.gruselseite.com. Horror News and Reviews, archived from the original on April 5, 2009 ; accessed on March 24, 2009 (podcast interview with director and summary archiv-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090405024707/http://gruselseite.com/reviews/Eden_Log/review.html ).
- ↑ EDEN LOG. Cinema , accessed February 19, 2010 .
- ↑ Jason Anderson: Eden Log. (No longer available online.) Eyeweekly.com, September 2, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 19, 2010 (English). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Chris Cabin: Eden Log. filmcritic.com, archived from the original on February 2, 2009 ; Retrieved February 19, 2010 (English).
Web links
- Eden Log in Internet Movie Database (English)
- Eden Log in rotten tomatoes (English)