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13 out of 13 people found the following review useful:
One of the best Slovakian movies made after 1989, 17 December 2005

Author: Pavol Strba from Slovakia

Martin Sulik's poetic vision of reality offers an interesting probe into the relationship between an elderly father (Marian Labuda) and his son Jakub (Roman Luknar) in his early 30's. The main story is happening in the old garden, which belonged to Jakub's grand father. In this mysterious place he finds the peace he was looking for so desperately. What is even more important - the father and the son finally find the way to each other. Like in other Sulik's movies, the plot, story and tension are not the most important. This kind of poetic cinematography is more about the mood and quite hardly identifiable joy coming from "no one knows what". A timeless independent movie. Good work.

12 out of 13 people found the following review useful:
a mystical movie about the treasures in life, 22 October 2003

Author: (ledhofman) from Nijmegen, Netherlands

I absolutely love this movie. It gives you the feeling of entering a new dimension where the distinction between reality and fiction gradually vanishes. The powerful images of a mystical garden are dream like. It takes you to a place where you feel it touches your innermost wishes of tranquillity and peace. A dream within a dream, a fantasy that becomes reality. Let this movie take you to a place you never imagined existed and enjoy the ride.

9 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
Best fairy tale ever, 1 March 2006

Author: Pavol Madeja from Slovakia

I don't know what is making me to see this movie again and again. I think is something under the line I can not describe. For me it is absolutely amazing movie and all I can say about it is that you have to see it. It is not about being a masterpiece or having million dollar budget, it is about feelings that will stay inside you for a while after seeing this. I don't know if somebody can imagine to be in position of Jakub, but I would like to be on his place every time he is spending his time in garden where you can feel the touch of ages. I think for people outside of Slovakia it could be nice look into Slovakian way of thinking.

Enjoy

9 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
Good entertainment and high art in one, 11 January 1999

Author: spechax from Riga, Latvia

One of the best movies I have ever seen. A visually beautiful, modern fairy-tale. This movie can be enjoyed as a comedy with a witty plot and a perfect cast, and, as an essay in the history of culture with archetypical characters and situations. Sulik has a distinctive style of his own, which he continues to develop also in his latest work, "Orbis Pictus", but I think "Garden" is his best movie so far. If you ever get a chance to see it, do so - you will not regret.

7 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
Treasure, 5 June 1999

Author: karen van de lockant from Nijmegen, Netherlands

Every time I see this movie, my love for it grows. It is one of my treasures on VCR. It confronts you with life and living life, but not in a cynic way, which is often the case in film and literature. It shows the beauty and mystique of this world without being pretentious. The movie contains a great sense of humor, because humans are strange creatures with funny methods of approaching life and how they try to make sense of it. You have to love them for it, in spite or because of the mistakes they make.

8 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
A Gem, 10 July 2002

Author: poc-1 from Cork, Ireland

A beautiful movie, with a dreamlike feel to it. The main character is Jakub who has fallen out with his father and has moved into a ramshackle house in the countryside. There is an overgrown garden and orchard.It is organised in chapters like a book, as Jakub encounters various odd visitors to the house and garden. Don't expect much of a message or action, just sit back and enjoy.

6 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Everyone wants to escape from the haste of our age., 16 February 2005

Author: Jiri Patera

Jakub is a teacher living in a flat with his father. After some quarrels he is asked to leave. He found a place to live at his grandfather's raddled house among fields in the countryside. Jakub starts to live a calm life, repairing the house and big garden. From time to time he encounters strange visitors - man who wants to be saint and wants Jakub to wash his feet, man who exchanges his broken car for Jakub's pretty good car etc. And mainly he has one regular visitor....magical girl, Helena. Not working he's fired from his job and decides not to go back to the city. Sometimes his father comes to visit him and they relationship gets better. Jakub starts to teach at the local school and stays with Helena. Just watch the poetry of this jewel of Slovak cinematography. You're gonna love it.

5 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
O, o, o., 8 November 1999

Author: Stakker

Its not often that you see a movie, which you leave with two hearts in your breast, and your head filled with colourful words. And its not often that you can see a movie more than seven times, without noticing that the elements loose its magic one-by-one; without getting bored such as so easily happens when information gets repeatedly in touch with human conciousness.

But this incredible mixture of reality and fairy-tale, filosophy and lightness, makes it all work in a film, of which you have the feeling that it always existed, like The Odyssee itself. And then there is that girl!

5 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
The garden we all dream about, 11 February 2001

Author: tpolakov from Ottawa, Canada

Have you ever dreamt about Love ? The one which comes out of nowhere, turns your world upside down, heals all your wounds and gives your life a meaning ? Now this movie is about a love like this. It is a contemporary romantic fairy tale with a good sense of humor achieved by not taking itself too seriously. You won't regret seeing it.

2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
About nothing and about all, 31 July 2010
Author: Vincentiu from Romania

A film about origins and ordinary mysteries. About the nuances of childhood. About freedom. A school teacher and his father. A young woman. A girl. And a garden. A poem about roots and happiness. It is difficult to describe this movie. The story of Jakub is only self definition. Few parts, some characters as steps to real image of reality, trees and ants, magic and exile, knowledge and answers. Small drops of a spring rain. And the fly. It is a form of soul song. And shadow of lost ages. A fairy tall with taste of apples and summer vacation. Nothing complicated. Maybe, a Proust madlene. That movie type about nothing and all. A travel to memories and slice of silence. And nostalgics bones of a far world.

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