The Galapagos Affair

The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden is a 2013 feature-length documentary directed by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine. It is about a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos island of Floreana in the 1930s among the largely European expatriate residents at the time. The voice cast includes Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger, Connie Nielsen, Josh Radnor and Gustaf Skarsgård.[2]

The Galapagos Affair
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDaniel Geller
Dayna Goldfine
Produced byJonathan Dana
Daniel Geller
Dayna Goldfine
Celeste Schaefer Snyder
William McComas
Written byDaniel Geller
Dayna Goldfine
Celeste Schaefer Snyder
Music byLaura Karpman
CinematographyDaniel Geller
Edited byBill Webber
Production
company
Geller/Goldfine Productions
Distributed byZeitgeist Films
Release date
  • September 2, 2013 (2013-09-02) (TFF)
  • April 4, 2014 (2014-04-04) (United States)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$247,159 (USA)[1]

It features the 1934 silent film The Empress of Floreana in its entirety, but the four-minute short is split into halves.[3]

Cast (voices)

Release

The film premiered at the 40th Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2013. It was an official selection of the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 12, 2013 and Berlin International Film Festival on February 10, 2014.[4][5] It opened theatrically in the US on April 4, 2014.[2]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 83% based on 53 reviews, with an average rating of 6.92/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "It doesn't quite live up to its marvelously lurid premise, but The Galapagos Affair is still stranger than fiction in a very entertaining way."[6] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 69 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[7]

References
  1. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden at Box Office Mojo
  2. "The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden". Zeitgeist Films. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
  3. "'The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden' review". SF Gate. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  4. "THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN". ticketcentral.com. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  5. "The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden - Release Info". IMDb. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
  6. "The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  7. "The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved May 13, 2020.


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