Overview
- The film is now playing in select U.S. cinemas in a limited theatrical run.
- It spans 1908, 1972, and 2020 at a German university’s botanical garden, with a lone ginkgo tree as a steady presence.
- Tony Leung leads the 2020 thread as a neuroscientist opposite Léa Seydoux’s botanist, with their work framed by a pandemic lockdown.
- Enyedi differentiates each era with distinct formats—35mm black‑and‑white for 1908, grainy color for 1972, and precise digital for 2020—plus plant point‑of‑view and time‑lapse imagery.
- Enyedi and reviewers point to themes of scientific curiosity, changing gender dynamics in academia, and the struggle to connect across language barriers.