"EDEN", written and directed by Howard Goldberg, to be released in March, stars the luminous Joanna Going and the masterful Dylan Walsh in an exquisite cinematic success. The complex story unfolds with the delicacy of a paper waterflower dropped into a full crystal vase, and it never disappoints. Going plays Helen Kunen, an extremely bright wife, mother and history scholar, married to a prep school teacher and living on the school's campus, who feels constrained on many levels. There is her emotionally repressed husband Bill (Walsh) who embraces the sexism of fifties marriages, the stodgy traditions of the school and the encroaching multiple sclerosis that physically handicaps her. Helen finds an outlet for her expression by nurturing her husband’s young "charges", particularly a dreamy, rebellious young writer David, played charmingly and insightfully by Sean Patrick Flanery. When Bill refuses to let her tutor students Helen begins "escaping" by "leaving her body" -- engaging in astral projection Going is both astonishingly beautiful and immensely talented, possessing an ethereal radiance. She immerses herself in her character so completely that she leaves the audience spellbound.

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