Trees and Other Entanglements

Name: Trees and Other Entanglements
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-05-25
Rating: 67

2023

1 hr. 50 min.

Documentary

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67%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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Filmmaker Irene Taylor crafts a poetic meditation on nature, mortality, and the passage of time in her exploration of our symbiotic nexus with trees. Weaving together several stories of arboreal adoration, TREES AND OTHER ENTANGLEMENTS unfolds as a deeply human tale of our connection to the natural world and to one another.

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Christine S

So beautiful. The interweaving of human stories with the spiritual nature of something so common yet meaningful.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/03/24

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Griffin E

An incredible story about the interconnected lives of people as told through different trees and the people that tend to them.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/08/24

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BILL M

This movie is really about how trees are "useful" to people, as well as a hagiography to Weyerhauser. Far from being inspired by "The Overstory", it is almost devoid of either the science of trees, or the feelings people have as the great forests are being destroyed. Sure, lots of shots of miles of felled trees, but then we learn that hey, Weyerhauser has planted 2 billion trees. We even meet the ex-hippies that planted alot of them. What we don't learn is that by planting them as mono-crops, they are destroying what was once a diverse ecosystem, and merely delaying the inevitable environmental collapse and the soil gets depleted. There is no spirit of investigation, of challenging power (so central to "The Overstory"), and for a film set in the Pacific Northwest, not a word about Native Americans!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/31/23

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Christopher M

a nice mellow documentary about trees and deforestation. A nice and engaging documentary.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/22/23

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hardy c

This is a curious documentary. It has plenty of wonderful images of trees and forests. It also has a lot of people with varying relationships with trees. But the whole seems less than the sum of the parts. Yes the bonzai specialist with the psychotic bonzai-killing ex-wife/ex-girlfriend is an interesting person, as is the photographer dedicated to finding exotic trees worldwide and the 95 year old George Weyerhaeuser who was kidnapped as a nine year old and the 76 year old tree planter who built an international tree planting company. But what does all this mean? The doc fails to really integrate these various tree-experiences into a holistic "Grand Meaning." I came away liking trees as much as I did before watching this but cannot say I am more enlightened.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/19/23

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DJ J

Cleverly crafted film with stories that resonate deeply with our relationship to trees and their key importance for us. Great cinematography.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/15/23

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Irene Taylor

Director

Dirk Brinkman

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Carolyn Finney

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George Weyerhaeuser

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Peter D. Richardson

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Irene Taylor

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Director: Irene Taylor
Executive Producer: Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Tina Nguyen
Distributor: HBO
Production Co: Vermilion Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 12, 2023

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