Editing The Hanging Garden (film) (section)

==Critical reception==
[[Roger Ebert]] favourably reviewed the film, writing that "It may be magic realism, but isn't it also the simple truth? Don't the ghosts of our former selves attend family events right along with our current manifestations? Don't parents still sometimes relate to us as if we were children, don't siblings still carry old resentments, aren't old friends still stuck on who we used to be? And don't we sometimes resurrect old personas and dust them off for a return engagement? Aren't all of those selves stored away inside somewhere?"<ref>[[Roger Ebert]], ''The Hanging Garden''. RogerEbert.com, May 29, 1998.</ref>

For ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', Brendan Kelly wrote that "'The Hanging Garden' is often in danger of seeming overly pretentious, but Fitzgerald wisely undercuts the formal artiness with strong, emotional storytelling. In many ways, this is a simple yarn of a son dealing with the usual family demons and, on that level, is an affecting piece of filmmaking. Beyond that, the mix of film-school formalism and down-to-earth drama makes the pic a unique offering."<ref name=variety/>

In 2001, an industry poll conducted by ''[[Playback (magazine)|Playback]]'' named it the 11th best Canadian film of the preceding 15 years.<ref>[[Michael Posner (journalist)|Michael Posner]], "Egoyan tops film poll". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', November 25, 2001.</ref>