2019 · romance · drama · coming-of-age
Tell It to the Bees
Directed by Annabel Jankel1h 46m2019
Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.
Our read: Tell It to the Bees (2019) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded romance · drama · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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