Taming the Garden
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«It is a story that could have been taken from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, or from a tale by Charles Perrault or by the Brothers Grimm: .(...) But as usually happens in fairy tales, all that glitters is not gold.»
‘Taming the Garden’: The strange journey of ancient trees to a Georgian billionaire’s mansion , El País - Rafael de Jame Juliá , February 2022
«Es una historia que podría estar sacada de Las mil y una noches, o de un cuento de Perrault o de los hermanos Grimm: (...) Pero como en los cuentos, no es oro todo lo que reluce.»
Un árbol cruza el mar: cómo el hombre más rico de Georgia compra y transporta los arbustos de las fincas más pobres , El País - Rafael de Jame Juliá, February 2022
«Transporting these trees is a Fitzcarraldo-type operation: a folie de grandeur of staggering proportions. »
Taming the Garden review – fascinating study of a billionaire’s destructive folly , The Guardian - Peter Bradshaw, January 2022
«Moments de réflexion, d’émotion, de pensées en ce temps géorgien et, partant, mondialisé dans le global village duquel toutes les folies, les outrances, les violences sont possibles à force de moyens financiers et politiques engagés.»
Taming the Garden , Filmexplorer - Jean Perret, January 2022
«From this limb-cracking progress emerges a profoundly moving meditation on power, the vulnerability of nature and the primordial impulse of men to bend the environment to their will.»
Root of the problem: the brutal creation of a billionaire's pleasure garden , The Guardian - Claire Armitstead , January 2022
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