{"id":124351,"date":"2022-01-25T23:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/taming-the-garden-review-fascinating-study-of-a-billionaires-destructive-folly\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T00:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:04:26","slug":"taming-the-garden-review-fascinating-study-of-a-billionaires-destructive-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/taming-the-garden-review-fascinating-study-of-a-billionaires-destructive-folly\/","title":{"rendered":"Taming the Garden review \u2013 fascinating study of a billionaire\u2019s destructive folly"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSalom\u00e9 Jashi\u2019s film follows the journey of hundreds of mature trees as they are uprooted across Georgia to populate a rich man\u2019s gardenLike a sad, greedy king in some fairytale or parable, the Georgian billionaire and former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili set out, six years ago, to buy and uproot hundreds of magnificent mature trees and transport them at colossal expense and difficulty across Georgia to be transplanted in his own huge private garden. It sometimes involves taking a tree by water, along the Black Sea coast \u2013 a truly surreal image.Salom\u00e9 Jashi\u2019s fascinating and deadpan film shows, in a series of tableau-type shots, the effect that these purchases are having up and down the land. Local workers squabble among themselves at the dangerous, strenuous, but nonetheless lucrative job of digging them up. The landowners and communities brood on the sizeable sums of money they are getting paid and Ivanishvili\u2019s promises that roads will also be built. But at the moment of truth, they are desolate when the Faustian bargain must be settled and the huge, ugly haulage trucks come to take their trees away in giant \u201cpots\u201d of earth, as if part of their natural soul is being confiscated. (Surely at least some of these trees will have died en route, although this is not revealed.) Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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