Taming the Garden

[Available Jan. 19 via streaming on MUBI.] Slow pacing and a lack of back story hinder Salomé Jashi's award-winning, unbelievable, beautifully photographed, surprising, bizarre, 86-minute documentary with an anticlimactic ending in which self-serving, art-collecting, billionaire former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili spends millions of lari to rent machinery and to hire people to uproot giant, ancient trees along the Republic of Georgia coastline to plant in his private garden in exchange for pittance compensation to villagers and promises to build roads.
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