On an extended honeymoon on the Côte d’Azur, Catherine (Mena Suvari) draws her writer husband David (Jack Huston) into androgynous sexual role play. The film recreates the sun-blanched milieu of the Lost Generation at play between the wars. His adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s Garden of Eden-Linville’s first produced screenplay-is now available on DVD in the US through Lions Gate.
An American who lives in London, Linville is a former managing editor of the Paris Review. In late 2010, hiding from the chill of the Manhattan winter in the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel, I had tea with screenwriter James Scott Linville. They originally appeared at my now-defunct blog Honey for the Bears. Here are two older pieces about Ernest Hemingway’s intriguing unfinished novel The Garden of Eden (published posthumously in 1986).
