Wilding

2023

Documentary

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 92% · 12 reviews
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 465 465

farm based on novel or book nature environment natural habitat land restoration

Director

David Allen Photo
David Allen

Top cast

Jon Wennington Photo
Jon Wennington as Ted Green
Matthew Collyer Photo
Matthew Collyer as Self
Rhiannon Neads Photo
Rhiannon Neads as Isabella Tree
Isabella Tree Photo
Isabella Tree as Self
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687.93 MB
1280*540
English 2.0
NR
fi  dk  no  sv  
23.976 fps
1 hr 14 min
Seeds 4
1.38 GB
1920*810
English 5.1
NR
fi  dk  no  sv  
23.976 fps
1 hr 14 min
Seeds 12
687.47 MB
1280*542
English 2.0
NR
fi  dk  no  sv  
23.976 fps
1 hr 14 min
Seeds 6
1.38 GB
1920*812
English 5.1
NR
fi  dk  no  sv  
23.976 fps
1 hr 14 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by caroleanne-57166 8 / 10

Inspired to find out more

This film is beyond beautiful and I found it far more moving than I could ever have imagined. Seeing nature developing like that - especially the animals growing into their natural selves - was just gorgeous.I watched the film with a people from both our local Environmental group and Climate Action group and we were all deeply moved by the way animals help nature to heal itself. At the end we had questions around how the estate supports itself - camping there isn't expensive and nor are the wildlife tours they do, so hardly enough to support such a huge estate and country house (complete with battlements!)I felt that it could have gone into so much more depth around how healing the land benefits farming, how they manage the land and the animals, how they make enough money to support the estate. They talk briefly about the need for it to support itself but never any more than that.And they talk about how challenging it was to tread a path that caused so much strong reaction and hint at the end that this is changing or has changed, but don't develop that theme either.So I really, really loved the film and would have given it 10 out of 10 for sheer beauty and inspiration, but felt that it could have developed quite a few of the themes to make it more informative rather than just inspirational.
Reviewed by bjfssk 8 / 10

Just sit back and enjoy it!

There seem to be extremely positive and extremely negative comments generated by this film which is interesting. I found the best way to view this was to sit back and just enjoy the journey. Of course it's highly edited and geared to show only one outcome: what the land CAN do if we let it. That's a hugely valuable experiment that few dare to take on, whatever the motivations.The detail - the obvious wealth involved, the actual animal management, the final settlement of the controversies with neighbours - could be argued forever. Without going into the rights and wrongs this film is a cinematically beautiful product and it hits the spot in surprising ways. If nothing else it makes us think outside the box. This was a visual feast and came with an eye-opening view of what's possible! Let's celebrate that at least!
Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

Wilding

There's something quite fascinating about the recuperative ability of the land to recover from centuries of man's abuse displayed in this documentary. Isabella Tree and husband Charlie have inherited a country estate that can barely manage to grow weeds. The soil is knackered and desperate action is required. They hit on the fairly radical idea of abandoning the place to nature (except their front lawn!) and the film now follows the reclamation of this space by birds, bugs, deer, pigs, cattle - creatures that would have roamed the land freely a few hundred years ago. They even bring in storks! It's a stunning piece of photography to look at, but the underlying narrative is really quite weak and I found it allowed sentiment to overrule the one thing it fails to address - scalability. They live in a castle with no evident money worries. None that we are told about, anyway. So this looks like a worthy pet project that though laudable and impressive will, as one of their neighbours raises at a meeting, not feed the nation. When the vast majority of these complementary farming techniques were in use, the population of the UK was probably less than 10% of what it is now; malnutrition and starvation were rife and distribution methods, without refrigeration, left the food supply subject to the vagaries of the weather. What this doesn't address in any way is just how this method of nurturing the land is going to provide for an hungry population. It's largely presented by Isabella Tree herself, and she is an engaging individual but one who presents the most complex of arguments in far too simple a fashion - as if it were a lecture on the relative merits of organic methods without addressing in any way their limitations of their practicalities or economics. "Duncan" the horse and a few of the pigs have some great fun at a charity polo match and it is a very watchable film - but a little too light and fluffy.
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