Natural beauties aren't enough to rescue a belabored clash between those who respect the natural world and others who seek its destruction.
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Courtesy of Minerva Pictures In fairy tales, we never question why the beautiful princess is marrying a horrible prince: Part of the pact readers make with such stories is that we accept these situations at face value. In real life though, when presented with a woman joining herself to a nasty piece of work, we need to know why. Comedies aside, combining these two literary forms creates minefields for a writer because the moment disbelief spreads like mold, the most fantastically built Cinderella castle collapses. “Wandering Trees,” Salvatore Mereu‘s new three-hour film, is unmistakably part of the iconoclastic director’s world, with its almost metaphysical approach to Sardinians’ relationship to the land, but a major tonal clash between the pronounced fairy-tale structure and the realistic elements trips up his customary mastery in handling complex narratives.
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