1995 · drama · surreal · fable
The Garden
Directed by Martin Šulík1h 39m1995
Jakub's life arrived at a dead-end. He leaves his job, and gets into conflict with his father. The trouble just grows by his relation with a married woman. Breaking out, Jakub realizes the pleasures of the countryside in the old garden of his grandfather. He finds true love with an angel, and encounters various exciting moments of his new free life. Strange visitors arrive, and he wont get back to town anymore.
Our read: The Garden (1995) reads as a warm, measured, inventive drama · surreal · fable entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / surreal, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- inventive
- intimate
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