More Than Honey

Name: More Than Honey
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-08-14T17:00:32-07:00
Rating: 100

2013

More Than Honey

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Movie Info

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 salvation sometimes comes from a completely unexpected direction. (c) Erste

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Documentary
Directed By:

Markus Imhoof
Written By:

Markus Imhoof
In Theaters:

Jun 12, 2013 limited
On Disc/Streaming:

Dec 24, 2013
Box Office:

$31,105
Runtime:

91 minutes
Studio:

Kino Lorber

Cast

Fred Jaggi

Liane Singer

Heidrun Singer

Fred Terry

John Miller

Randolf Menzel

John Hurt
as Narrator

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Critic Reviews for More Than Honey

All Critics (39) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (39)

Markus Imhoof's bee documentary is so stuffed with surreal tableaux it makes your head spin.

January 1, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Charlotte O'Sullivan
London Evening Standard
Top Critic
Eye-popping photography should draw viewers to this thoughtful, revealing doc.

January 1, 2014 | Full Review…

John DeFore
Hollywood Reporter
Top Critic
An interesting, and interestingly laidback film, an almost restful look at honeybees and the way they are kept and cultivated across the world.

September 5, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
Top Critic
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.

September 5, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Mahir Miah
Little White Lies
Top Critic
Summer's blitz of apocalypse movies has nothing on this bee doc.

September 4, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Cath Clarke
Time Out
Top Critic
Oblique narrative aside, you can't beat the film's eye-popping visuals.

August 7, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
Top Critic
More Than Honey is a reminder of how thoroughly humans have intertwined themselves with the other life on this planet, and vice versa.

September 18, 2019 | Full Review…

Noah Berlatsky
Splice Today
There's more than enough here to entertain bee enthusiasts and the environmentally-conscious curious alike.

March 2, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Daniel Green
CineVue
It's pretty clear that Imhoof is not a fan of US industrial-scale farming but rather than shove angry stats such as '80 per cent of plants rely on bee pollination' in your face, he prefers to fascinate viewers.

September 5, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Metro (UK)
Imhoof's globetrotting odyssey is more concerned with contemplation than investigation.

January 23, 2014 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…

Christopher Long
Movie Metropolis
It is the elegance of its images that sets it apart from previous doomed bee documentaries. The footage of individual animals going about their business is a sight to behold.

January 1, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Donald Clarke
Irish Times
More Than Honey is a phenomenally well-researched and thorough study of bees and their complex influence on human civilization, and an in depth investigation of the honeybee colony collapse disorder.

January 1, 2014 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Jennifer Merin
About.com

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Audience Reviews for More Than Honey

Oct 18, 2013

This Swiss documentary directed by Markus Imhoof about honeybee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia was the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards. After watching it I was so impressed by the visuals that it could be on the top if only visuals were to be counted for rating. It was very interesting documentary, and sometimes neutral view at honeybees and the way they are kept and cultivated across the world. I had a chance to see how in Austria, an elderly man keeps them the way his forebears did; in Germany they are rigorously studied by scientists; in the US their commercial possibilities are savoured destroying the essence of keeping them in the first place and in China they are worked harder than ever - if you can find any! [img]http://img.rlsbb.com/images/2013/07/28/more_than_honey_2012_1.jpg[/img] Everything in this documentary was perfect, especially photography and camera work, but one thing was missing - emotionally filled concern! We could even hear answers on the perennially fascinating question of whether bees are effectively buzzing cells in super-organisms... great thoughts about where are societies are heading... but never heard even a suggestion for a solution of the problem: why are the bees disappearing and what to do about it. Question was repeated few times, but answer was never given! [img]http://www.atthecinema.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/More-Than-Honey.jpg[/img] Nevertheless, even without that answer this is one of the best documentaries about bees I had a chance to see in my life. Fascinating, well directed, perfectly edited, brings us the mystery and the beauty of the bees .

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