Tell It to the Bees

Tell It to the Bees

2018 · 106 min · EN · NR · 7.6 (379 votes)
Dir. Annabel Jankel · Starring Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger, Emun Elliott, Steven Robertson, Lauren Lyle, Gregor Selkirk · Music Claire M Singer

Some secrets are too powerful to keep

RomanceDrama

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.

VIBE

A quiet, poignant drama steeped in the atmosphere of rural 1950s Scotland. It feels like a whispered secret, a tender exploration of love and longing against a backdrop of societal judgment.

melancholictenderyearningintrospectiveslow-burnperiod dramaarthousecharacter-drivenforbidden loveidentityfamilyprejudice
based on novel or bookscotlandlesbian relationshipworking classlgbtwoman director1950sfailed marriagebeekeeperlesbian