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# Hand pruning of a tree in the late 19th century and Sofia Coppola’s film “The Virgin Suicides”
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/uvidel-eto-derevo-i-vspomnil-film-devstvennitsy-samoubiitsy-1999-goda-sofii-koppola/
- Published: 2022-01-02T08:35:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:07:14.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Cinema, Observations, Nature

Saw this tree and was reminded of Sofia Coppola's 1999 film "The Virgin Suicides". If you haven't seen it, consider it a recommendation for the holidays. The photograph shows the pruning of a tree at the end of the nineteenth century. This is no shameful topping, with which trees are maimed and ruined nowadays, but thoughtful manual labour, helping the tree to grow a denser and taller crown