{"id":191150,"date":"2021-03-01T06:21:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T03:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-taming-the-garden-review-a-bewitching-surreal-human-vs-nature-doc\/"},"modified":"2021-03-01T06:21:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T03:21:36","slug":"watch-taming-the-garden-review-a-bewitching-surreal-human-vs-nature-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-taming-the-garden-review-a-bewitching-surreal-human-vs-nature-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Taming the Garden&#8217; Review: A Bewitching, Surreal Human vs. Nature Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4147dba770a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4147dba770a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-taming-the-garden-review-a-bewitching-surreal-human-vs-nature-doc\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Taming_the_Garden_Review_A_Bewitching_Surreal_Human_vs_Nature_Doc%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Taming the Garden&#8217; Review: A Bewitching, Surreal Human vs. Nature Doc&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-taming-the-garden-review-a-bewitching-surreal-human-vs-nature-doc\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Taming_the_Garden_Review_A_Bewitching_Surreal_Human_vs_Nature_Doc%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Taming the Garden&#8217; Review: A Bewitching, Surreal Human vs. Nature Doc&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Taming_the_Garden_Review_A_Bewitching_Surreal_Human_vs_Nature_Doc%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Taming the Garden&#8217; Review: A Bewitching, Surreal Human vs. Nature Doc&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Taming_the_Garden_Review_A_Bewitching_Surreal_Human_vs_Nature_Doc%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Taming the Garden&#8217; Review: A Bewitching, Surreal Human vs. Nature Doc&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Peter Carey\u2019s 1988 novel \u201cOscar and Lucinda\u201d contains a section in which a glass church is floated down a river. It\u2019s such a striking image that one imagines it must have been the spur for the whole intricate story, just as the sight of a large tree borne on a barge, cutting a crisp swath through calm blue coastal waters and trailing an arc of questions in its wake, might trigger a documentary as quietly magnificent and strange as Salom\u00e9 Jashi\u2019s \u201cTaming the Garden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Across an immaculately slow and beautiful 92 minutes, Jashi\u2019s film sometimes recalls experimental essays like V\u00e9r\u00e9na Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor\u2019s \u201cLeviathan,\u201d with similarly outstanding cinematography from Jashi and co-DP Goga Devdariani. Occasionally, with a shot across treetops in which one patch of greenery moves with bizarre animal grace while all else is stationary, it looks like one of Tolkien\u2019s Ents has decided to take a stroll. And as the film\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s of human versus nature emerge, one can\u2019t help thinking of Werner Herzog, especially with the sheer incongruity of that floating tree obscurely evoking the stranded steamboat of \u201cFitzcarraldo.\u201d Still, the closest parallel remains that drifting church in Carey\u2019s book: this film too is surreal, serene and maybe just a little bit sacred.<\/p>\n<p>Cryptically, elliptically, without narration or any outside intervention, \u201cTaming the Garden\u201d relates a curious recent incident in rural Georgia when the billionaire ex-prime minister \u2014 still widely regarded as among the most powerful men in the country \u2014 decided to populate his vast private garden with mature trees. And so his people scoured the countryside and struck deals with locals, paying them and promising infrastructure upgrades if they let their ancient beeches and acacias be carried away, by road and sea, to his home. Though this peculiar saga actually happened, Jashi\u2019s film plays more like myth than journalism, as though she is documenting the folklore of the future as it is happening. \u201cOnce upon a time a rich man looked out over his garden and was sad because he had no trees \u2026\u201d \u2014 so might begin the fairy tale that Georgian villagers will, in a couple of centuries\u2019 time, tell their children.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a steady, almost forensic interest in the machinery and manpower that make such an impractical whim a reality. In hypnotic detail, the perfectly still camera watches a digger pulling away clods of striated earth. It is fascinated by drill bits and pile drivers and pipes being laid into muddy banks. Water sluices across the metal deck of the barge and makes the veins of rust redden like bleeding wounds \u2014 the photography imbues industrial processes with poetry. But there is also humanity here, along with territorial disputes, arguments about contracts and jealousies over one guy\u2019s good fortune in owning a valuable tree when his neighbor\u2019s is comparatively worthless. In kitchens, men debate the ethics of selling their forests in return for better roads. In dusky living rooms babushkas tell their sons to get the money up front. And in little knots gathered for smoke breaks, burly workers swap stories about the billionaire like he\u2019s a mythic king. There are rumors that he wants to live forever and believes old trees will prolong his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be grateful!\u201d rages one guy. \u201cWho gives a fuck about trees?\u201d asks another. But even when the locals don\u2019t acknowledge it, Jashi\u2019s watchful, listening film is tuned to the wavelength of their collective, subconscious regret. Whatever they might say, there\u2019s an understanding that to hack into those 15-meter-wide root systems is to tear into the very fabric of the community. And if there\u2019s a certain glamour attached to the chosen specimens, others are mere collateral damage: a whole row of lesser trees is removed so that a hundred-year-old heirloom can be taken away, regally upright on a flatbed, without getting its branches tangled in some kind of weird arboreal farewell.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, by the time of this last tree\u2019s removal, as night falls and the buzzing of chain saws and the clanking of the diggers has ceased (Philippe Ciompi\u2019s soundscapes fuse superbly with Celia Stroom\u2019s music design throughout), there is no doubt that the little party that gathers in witness is holding a vigil or a wake. A couple pull chairs onto their lawn to watch. Someone smokes his first cigarette in 30 years. An older woman crosses herself and cries quietly. Unlike, presumably, any of them, we get to visit the private paradise. There are hillocks and patches of verdant shrubbery. There\u2019s a bamboo forest like something in Kyoto. And there are spreading trees dotted about in random clusters, betraying little evidence of the trauma of their transplantation. It is nature so artfully sculpted to look natural that for a second you might think it is. 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