Silent Friend
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Set in the botanical garden of a medieval town in Germany. Three epochs, three personalities, three sometimes clumsy but sincere attempts to free themselves and to create links with the plants and the world of the garden. An encounter.
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- Sep 4, 2025
In the wood for love.
Jack SalvadoriSep 9, 2025wow???????? I hope the guy next to me checking the stock market every 5 minutes dies poor and alone
Thom ClémentNov 29, 2025Singapore International Film Festival 2025 Film #8 As someone who loves cinema I usually leave movies with countless thoughts (+ and -) banging around in my head. On occasion, a film will be so powerful that it renders me speechless. Silent Friend has had that type of…
Jomari Bashin - Sep 4, 2025
Wanna see my geranium?
PA27Sep 6, 2025this movie is a love letter to the botanic world it has a beautiful and strong message, that is portrayed in a very sophisticated yet effective way, it makes us reflect about how many things plants have seen, felt, experienced, and went through because in the end every…
⋆｡‧˚ʚjules🐦🔥ɞ˚‧｡⋆Sep 10, 2025SILENT FRIEND is a patient and transfixing rumination on plants, their hidden life force and the whispers they send back to us that we feel but don’t hear. Shot across three distinct film formats for its intertwining storylines, it’s thought-provoking and serenely executed,…
Matt Neglia - Sep 4, 2025
Babies are always high
CherryfuzzSep 4, 2025The development of the world and the advancement of science are about being a curious observer, and more importantly, a collaborative one.
detectivezincSep 9, 2025Struggled with this one because it has the bones of a film I’d love but I’m just not the notion that plants have feelings. Call me cynical but it had the sour taste of junk science and free-association nonsense (neurons look like tree branches so we’re all connected…
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An oscillator of language, emotion… …and feet
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Sep 13, 2025
Immersing yourself in the daze of Silent Friend is like accepting a joyous gift, even if you don’t ultimately believe that plants can or want to communicate with us. With her exquisite new work, Ildikó Enyedi has achieved the improbable goal of making non-human, humanistic cinema that is inclusive and reverent without falling into idolization (of plants) or condemnation (of humans).
Savina Petkova
The Film Stage
Sep 13, 2025
Enyedi is a master stylist who knows how to create a certain mood, mixing visual poetry with deadpan humor, and big ideas with quotidian foibles, in a film that explores our mysterious relationship with both the green world and one another.
Jordan Mintzer
The Hollywood Reporter
Sep 13, 2025
In the end, Silent Friend is a film of contradictions, profound, complex, and beautiful, but occasionally interminably boring.
Leila Latif
IndieWire
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