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Ron Howard Has Finally Lost His Mind
With his new film, Eden, the Hollywood stalwart lets the craziness take over, to his eternal credit.
Ron Howard’s reputation as a Hollywood stalwart who crafted classy hits and middlebrow prestige pictures always masked where his true skills lay – in his ability to take larger-than-life characters and bounce them off one another. In 1929, as the world was reeling from financial and political chaos, Dr. Friedrich Ritter (Jude Law) and his wife Dore Strauch (Vanessa Kirby) decamped to the uninhabited island of Floreana in the Galapagos, he to create “a radical new philosophy that will save humanity from itself,” and she to provide moral support while trying to heal her multiple sclerosis. And so, Eden begins in 1932, with the arrival of Heinz Wittmer (Daniel Bruhl), a World War I veteran, his wife Margret (Sydney Sweeney), and their son Harry(Jonathan Tittel) to Floreana, seeking paradise and a fresh start.
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