Eliza Naumann spells words. Lots of words. Hard words. Long words. And with an effortlessness and understanding that surprises everyone around her. Her teachers, her fellow students. But especially those closest to her: her father, mother and brother. The people whose lives Eliza's new-found genius will irrevocably change. A touching and astute portrait of a modern family whose picture-perfect life conceals an underlying world of secrets and turmoils..
Bee Season A fragile middle-class family disintegrate when their young daughter's success at spelling bees is interpreted by her religious professor father as divine. Drama starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche
The 2002 documentary Spellbound thrust an international spotlight onto the American custom of spelling bees - high-pressure competitions, usually involving school kids, with participants entering a knockout tournament where a single wrong letter means elimination and the last child standing takes all.
It's a forum ripe for drama, suspense and state-of-the-nation allegory; hence author Myla Goldberg's hit novel 'Bee Season', now adapted into an earnest,...
I'd like to point out that I tend to enjoy films which focus on decent acting and script, rather than flashy special effects and the like. I like sad themes, interesting characters and relationships, bittersweet humour etc- for example, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, Martian Child, Forrest Gump etc. So I really thought I would like this.
Unfortunately there is definitely something missing from the film as a whole. Frankly, it was boring and I found myself clock-watching after the first hour. Films with little plot can sometimes compensate for this by having wonderful characters and a quotable script, but this didn't ...
The haunting family drama Bee Season centers on a young girl who wins spelling bees, but that is just one element in a complex story of family turmoil and the search for spiritual meaning.
Based on the captivating novel by Myla Goldberg, Bee Season is evocative and superbly acted. It doesn't quite manage the shattering emotionality of the novel, but it's an intriguing, if slightly plodding, adaptation.
Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the talented directors of the masterful 2001 thriller The Deep End, Bee Season probes similar territory: a seemingly picture-perfect family fraying at the seams.
At first glance they seem like a ...
Bee Season
Directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel are elegant filmmakers who construct an intricate narrative without sacrificing emotional intensity
Bee Season
BEE SEASON shows a fondness for photographing things that shimmer - letters in the air, crystals. The movie works earnestly to transform unfamiliar concepts of philosophy
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