More Than Honey (2012)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 31
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 0
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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 0
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MORE THAN HONEY, a new documentary by the Swiss filmmaker Marcus Imhoof, is looking into the fascinating world of bees, showing small family beekeepers (including the beekeeper of ERSTE Foundation beehive, Heidrun Singer) and industrialized honey farms. MORE THAN HONEY is a film on the relationship between mankind and honeybees, about nature and about our future. Honeybees show us that stability is just as unhealthy as unlimited growth, that crises and disasters are triggering evolution and that
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Summer's blitz of apocalypse movies has nothing on this bee doc.
Top CriticOblique narrative aside, you can't beat the film's eye-popping visuals.
What's really frightening about Honey isn't what a hive of angry bees might do to us, but what we've done to them.
[Markus] Imhoof makes bees more important than they have previously seemed.
Imhoof's film is remarkable in its close-up photography. The bees loom large, like creatures from some mutant planet; dangle together in a delicate chain; and fill the air, floating like unusually vivid dust specks.
"More Than Honey" may be the most visually beautiful documentary ever made.
In all, More than Honey makes for surprisingly stimulating fare.
There is a lot to be learned from this thoughtful film as you marvel at the amazingly intimate images of colony life.
An interesting, and interestingly laidback film, an almost restful look at honeybees and the way they are kept and cultivated across the world.
A fascinating, informative and startling documentary that explores the disappearance of the honeybee.
You come out of the film none the wiser as to where the bees have all gone. But you still learn a hell of a lot about them.
Elegant, handsomely shot and often instructive, and its remarkable extended close-up sequences of bees' social structure are fascinating.
Feels slightly diffuse in its analysis.
Informative and occasionally scary.
Astonishing macro-photography captures the bees in all their surreal beauty, presenting a tribute to nature's "messenger of love" and a warning of what might be lost.
A little more attention to fact checking would have given the other scientific assertions in "More Than Honey" added weight, but even so this remains a fascinating, sometimes visually stunning, call to action.
It's a lovely, idiosyncratic film.
There's plenty of information spread around the movie to consider and inspire, but at the very core of More Than Honey is an appreciation for the bee itself, valuing its mystery as it near the precipice of extermination.
"More than Honey" has a majesty of its own.
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