Friday | June 18, 1999 7:00 pm

The Eden Myth

Mark Editz and Producer Jerry Kolber in Person at 7pm show
Screening on Film

Directed by Mark Editz.
With Julia Dion, Justin Kirk, Zohra Lampert.
US, 1999, 35mm, color, 82 min.

The American hit of the recent Rotterdam Film Festival, first-time filmmaker Mark Editz tells a modern-day almost-horror story in the most disarmingly straightforward, matter-of-fact way (think pre-stoning in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery). A family reunion of pale, phlegmatic types (why does a son agree so readily to his dad’s choice of an appropriate bride?) climaxes with revelations which remind of H.G. Wells’ evil Dr. Moreau. We can’t tell you more.