Watch: The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – Darwin meets Hitchcock in this feature-length documentary. THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR is a gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands. Featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, Connie Nielsen, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Gustaf Skarsgard and Josh Radnor, this film skillfully interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers (a handful of Europeans, Americans and Ecuadoreans who settled idiosyncratically on the Islands between the 1930s and 1960s). As such, it is a parable about the search for paradise — about what happens when a handful of individualists settle on the same small island seeking their own distinct and sometimes clashing notions of Eden..
Plot: Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.
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Fascinating, worth watching, but too long and poorly edited
I have no regrets about seeing this unusual film. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a documentary like it. The tale of a Nietzsche-inspired couple going off to live self-sufficiently on a tiny Galapagos island would be gripping enough. Add the other elements — the “Baroness” who decides to settle on the island after them with her two lovers, and the bizarre and deadly events that ensue — and it’s really an amazing story.Why, then, was the documentary so slow and, at times, dull? I think there were too many long, largely irrelevant interviews with people who lived on a nearby island. Their lives were quirky in their own way, but not that interesting, with little connection to the main story. I don’t think it’s bad to note that others lived on the Galapagos, but I don’t think these interviews added much, and at times they were pure digressions. While not omitted entirely, they could have been cut dramatically.
This is a riveting true story, but only parts of the documentary are riveting.
Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr (120 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Documentary, Biography, Crime
Director Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Writer Dayna Goldfine, Daniel Geller, Celeste Schaefer Snyder
Actors Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann
Country United States, Ecuador, Germany, Norway
Awards 3 nominations
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Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1 (Film)
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Laboratory ColorFlow (DCP mastering), Monaco Lab & Video (telecine transfers) (as Monaco Labs)
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