Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 104
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 60
Bee Season is an intelligent, but frustratingly distant and diffuse drama about family dysfunction.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 21
Bee Season is an intelligent, but frustratingly distant and diffuse drama about family dysfunction.
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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 12,133
Adapted from the novel by Myla Goldberg, Bee Season tells the story of a family whose turmoil is brought to the surface by a young girl's unexpected talent. Eleven-year-old Eliza (Flora Cross) is the invisible element of her family unit -- her mother and father (played by Juliette Binoche and Richard Gere) are both consumed with work and busy avoiding their faltering marriage. Her brother, praised for musical genius, is wrapped up in his own adolescent life. Eliza ignites not only a spark that
Nov 11, 2005 Wide
Apr 4, 2006
$1.1M
Fox Searchlight Pictures
All Critics (116) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (61) | DVD (13)
[A] pretentious family-in-crisis drama ...
Fine directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (The Deep End) take a detour into mumbo jumbo.
There's no shortage of material on the screen in Bee Season -- it's just not assembled in a satisfying manner.
Bee Season is earnest and heartfelt and respectful. And a botch.
Co-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, whose visual schemes lent a hypnotic aura to their previous collaborations ... don't find the right balance of story and image this time.
The film succeeds, because both the tale and the young performers (Cross and Max Minghella as Eliza's teenage brother, Aaron) are so compelling.
Spelling bees and family drama intertwine. Not meant for kids.
Words and letters may hold all the secrets of the universe, but 104 minutes wasn't enough to hold and resolve all the secrets and mysteries of Bee Season.
Perhaps the film's disparate subplots are given due attention in the book, but it all feels unfocused and jammed together here.
A well-told, enjoyable and insightful film, but its not necessarily as revelatory as its makers seem to think.
Os dez minutos finais de projeção parecem pertencer a um outro filme. Bem ruim, por sinal.
Family isn't just about talking. It's about understanding.
December 15, 2009
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