REVIEW
Enthusiasm & Energy Tree of Eternal Love, a feature debut by two completely unknown filmmakers, is an unbelievably strong and comprehensive film that despite its low budget has been realized at its best.
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outh film Tree of Eternal Love ignores a majority of the conventional logic that has been valid in today’s Estonian film industry. Filmmakers Meel Paliale and Urmet Piiling have not studied at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (instead, both of them are students at the Estonian Academy of Arts); they have no more experience of
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filmmaking than just a few smallscale experiments. And despite that, they have been entirely fearless: for their first large-scale project, Piiling and Paliale chose a fulllength feature film and were supported by producers Rain Rannu and Tõnis Hiielaid from the production company Tallifornia. And here is the result: an astonishingly complete and strong debut film made by two completely unknown
Tree of Eternal Love By Kaspar Viilup First published in Sirp
