Dark Eden

2018
1h 20m

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Located in northern Canada, Fort McMurray is home of the Athabasca Oil Sands, the largest industrial project on the planet. A place of unbridled opportunities where dreams can be fulfilled. ... Read allLocated in northern Canada, Fort McMurray is home of the Athabasca Oil Sands, the largest industrial project on the planet. A place of unbridled opportunities where dreams can be fulfilled. Here, people from all over the world pursue their fortunes. DARK EDEN explores the reality... Read allLocated in northern Canada, Fort McMurray is home of the Athabasca Oil Sands, the largest industrial project on the planet. A place of unbridled opportunities where dreams can be fulfilled. Here, people from all over the world pursue their fortunes. DARK EDEN explores the reality behind the dream of a better life. What is lost and what is gained in the pursuit of happ... Read all

Directors
- Michael David Beamish
- Jasmin Herold

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7.0/10

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Directors
- Michael David Beamish
- Jasmin Herold

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins total

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7/10

No must see but if you pass half the movie it gets bette

The movie starts has overall a very slow pace, you can argue it's on the boarder to boring. This adds in with an extreme long introduction of the few families which are portrait and their live in fort Murray. I was asking myself quite often where is this movie leading to.

The movie than gets a change around 30 minutes before the end, when you see how the life of the families changes. Here the movie gets better and the long introduction of the families starts to pay off as you are more connected to the changes happening to them. (Without spoiling to much).

All the movie in my view tries to relativ neutral document the live in the oil sand industry and why people do it and what price they pay. The viewer itself should judge what he think about it.

For me personally the pace of the movie is much to slow. I can understand everybody giving up latest after 15 minutes.

Seeing until the end it's ok but no must see in my view 7/10 as the topic itself was new for me and the movie covers quite a long time hence a bonus for the efforts.