Monday
November 9th
Film review
Silent friend
(2025, directed by Ildikó Enyedi)
location
Cinema Monviso
Paid ticket
price
€ 6
A large ginkgo biloba outside a German university is a defining moment in three eras. In 1908, a young woman, among the first admitted to the Botany program, faces embarrassment and skepticism from older professors; in 1972, two students fall in love while caring for a geranium and observing its reactions; in 2020, as Covid spreads, a neuroscientist from Hong Kong, arriving to study the minds of newborns, becomes interested in the tree. Ildikó Enyedi, in competition at Venice 2025 (Mastroianni Prize to Luna Wedler), creates a light and surprising story that shifts perspective and invites us to look at the plant world with new eyes, reflecting on humanity's place in nature.
A large ginkgo biloba outside a German university is a defining moment in three eras. In 1908, a young woman, among the first admitted to the Botany program, faces embarrassment and skepticism from older professors; in 1972, two students fall in love while caring for a geranium and observing its reactions; in 2020, as Covid spreads, a neuroscientist from Hong Kong, arriving to study the minds of newborns, becomes interested in the tree. Ildikó Enyedi, in competition at Venice 2025 (Mastroianni Prize to Luna Wedler), creates a light and surprising story that shifts perspective and invites us to look at the plant world with new eyes, reflecting on humanity's place in nature.
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