‘The Black Garden’ Review: A Sensitive Doc Evokes History by Telling a Contemporary Story
variety.comMurtada Elfadl In “The Black Garden,” Armenian French first time filmmaker Alexis Pazoumian manages to portray his ancestral homeland with such sensitivity you’d think incorrectly that he lived there most of his life.
Using the framework of three years in the life of three generations of Armenian men, Pazoumian sensitively captures the political conflicts, the social milieu and the geographical terrain of a small village on the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The village is Talish, located in the Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh and over the years its inhabitants have seen a lot of strife.
Being on the border makes the village a target whenever Azerbaijan attacks Armenia, a conflict that has been going on since the early 1990s when the Soviet Union was dismantled.
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