{"id":794504,"date":"2026-10-07T05:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794504\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T05:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:36:12","slug":"silent-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794504\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=63MiKVGOlr8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Silent Friend<\/a> is a historical drama written and directed by Hungarian filmmaker Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi. Here\u2019s the description:<\/p>\n<p>In the botanical garden of a medieval German university, a ginkgo tree hundreds of years old watches its human neighbors through the slip-stream of time. Among them, a young woman in 1908 attempts to break through the botany department\u2019s masculine academic culture; an idealistic couple in 1972 performs experiments on plant communication under its branches; and a neurologist on lockdown in 2020 turns to it as he tries to push the boundaries of perception.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/silent_friend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/film\/silent-friend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some good reviews on Letterboxd<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/davidehrlich\/film\/silent-friend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> from film reviewer David Ehrlich:<\/p>\n<p>me before seeing this movie: that is a big tree.<\/p>\n<p>me after seeing this movie: that is a giant, hormonal, unbearably horned up 900-year-old virgin that understands loneliness on a level that most humans could never even begin to imagine.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer and description put me in mind of Peter Wohlleben\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2966\/9781771643771\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Hidden Life of Trees<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2966\/9780393356687\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Overstory<\/a> by Richard Powers, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2966\/9780525565994\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finding the Mother Tree<\/a> by Suzanne Simard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Silent Friend is a historical drama written and directed by Hungarian filmmaker Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi. Here\u2019s the description: In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-794504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}