Taming the Garden (2021)

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Overview

A powerful public figure develops an unusual passion: relocating massive, centuries-old trees from coastal communities to a private garden. As the trees are uprooted and transported, the film observes the cost, disruption, and emotions stirred up in the places they leave behind.

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Pros: unusual real-life premise; striking sense of scale; thought-provoking ethical questions | Cons: slow observational pace; limited personal context; repetitive relocation process

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You may enjoy this if you like contemplative documentaries about power, communities, and unsettling real-world choices, like F@ck This Job or The Panama Papers; Not for you if you want fast pacing or clear heroes and villains.

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miguelreina

[HotDocs] In its quiet poetics, in the contemplation of the images without interviews or narration, this is a deeply ecological but also deeply political film. Through the forced migration of centuries-old trees, brushstrokes are drawn on Georgian society, on the concentration of power in billionaires like Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose lack of respect for the environment represents the profile of the oligarchy.