Viewers are immersed in revolutionary landscape designer Piet Oudolf’s work and given an insight to his creative process, from his beautifully abstract sketches, to theories on beauty, to the ecological implications of his ideas.
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Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf Trailer (2017) | Documentary |
Oudolf is an intriguing figure, a gardener who prizes not flowers or decorative features or even colour but the muscularforms and textures of plants and grasses.
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Nigel Andrews
RTFinancial TimesJun 12, 2019
If you just want to potter blissfully for 75 minutes, this should do it.
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Walter V. Addiego
RTSan Francisco ChronicleJul 12, 2018
Oudolf mentions in passing that his goal has been to create landscapes "you would dream of, but would never find" in nature, and from what we see in this movie, that's just what he's done.
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Erin Blackwell
RTBay Area ReporterJun 2, 2020
This is a missed opportunity to raise consciousness about the nature of plants in general and a new philosophy of gardening in particular.