I discovered this film yesterday, and quite by chance. The original intention to check out Toy Story 4 and Dumbo (yes, the double bill) in cine de verano, after spending some time in an enormous queue there, was replaced by plan B, viz. to watch a movie in VOSE in the queue-less and highly commendable Cines Babel. And what a great decision it turned out to be.
The title was misleadingly translated to Spanish as El secreto de las abejas — no, the film is not about bees’ own secrets. There are human secrets, of course. As it happens, too many secrets for a small Scottish town in the 1950s. I hope things changed by now there. But you never know.
The plot is very much believable (apart from one scene closer to the end involving, quite predictably, a lot of bees); the acting is superb, beyond the main triangle of Jean (Anna Paquin), Lydia (Holliday Grainger) and Charlie (Gregor Selkirk); and the end is not exactly happy but not unhappy either. I loved it.
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