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- As fascinating - and at times oblique - as the famous couple themselves.
- 75Boston GlobeMark FeeneyBoston GlobeMark FeeneyThe Eamery, as some called it, was highly successful as a business - and, more important, as an exercise in tastemaking. "We wanted to make the best for the most for the least,'' the Eameses like to say.
- A must for those with an interest in modern design.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyJason Cohn and Bill Jersey's sprightly documentary weighs its subjects' unique accomplishments and widespread influence while probing a relationship more complex than its sunny public face indicated.
- 70The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottThe most gratifying thing about "Eames" is that it shows, in marvelous detail, how their work was an extension of themselves and how their distinct personalities melded into a unique and protean force.
- 60Time OutEric HynesTime OutEric HynesAs this engaging, if rote, doc points out, the name Eames, much like Victorian, now defines the style of an era. Yet how many of us knew that the industrial designers behind those midcentury molded mod chairs were an eccentric married team?
- 60Total FilmTom DawsonTotal FilmTom DawsonThorough if workmanlike documentary.
- 50Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierSlant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierStructurally lopsided, the narrative jumps directly into the success of their first molded-plywood chair, and meanders from there into the numerous short films the Eames Studio made for government agencies and IT companies.
- 50Village VoiceMelissa AndersonVillage VoiceMelissa Anderson"I think their marriage was a mystery to everyone," an Eames worker notes - an observation true of every couple that you'll wish the filmmakers had explored more deeply.