Quiet Friend - movie review

An old tree stands in the middle of a botanical garden. It is lonely, just like the other inhabitants of the garden – thousands of kilometers away from their original habitat, so that we can admire and observe them. Just as we observe them, they observe us. They are witnesses to our short, tangled, noisy, and turbulent lives. The film tells three stories, three tentative encounters between humans and plants, when these two radically different species truly connect for a moment. Our human heroes, like the plants in the garden, are outsiders, lonely souls. And they long for connection just as much as the plants do.