Honeyland (2019)
7/10
Living Alone
9 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Actually, not quite alone - yet. A middle age woman lives w/her ailing mother in an abandoned rural farm & village within hours drive of Skopje, North Macedonia. The movie consists of these three elements: Caring for her mother; caring for bees while selling the honey for everyday items & food; dealing with a migrant family that haul in a trailer home & suddenly decide to occupy part of the area. Primarily cattle herders they decide to also take up beekeeping, thus the third part of the story. Three main problems w/this movie. First, could have used more subtitling. Second, lots of background & outcome holes in the script. Third, needed special features for background. IMDb states she is the last female bee hunter in Europe - I'm a bit skeptical on that.
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