Bee Season
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bee Season |
| Original title | Bee Season |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Scott McGehee David Siegel |
| script | Naomi Foner |
| production |
Albert Berger Ron Yerxa |
| music | Peter Nashel |
| camera | Giles Nuttgens |
| cut | Lauren Zuckerman |
| occupation | |
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Bee Season (alternate cross-reference: The Letter Princess ) is an American drama from 2005 . Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel , the screenplay was written by Naomi Foner based on a novel by Myla Goldberg from 2000.
action
Both parents of eleven-year-old Eliza Naumann, Miriam and Saul, are scientists. She has a brother, Aaron. Jewish origins, Saul is concerned at the University of California, Berkeley with the religious studies . Miriam, who converted to the Jewish faith after the wedding, is traumatized after the death of her parents.
Eliza wins a spelling competition . Her father trains her for further competitions and imparts her knowledge from Kabbalah . Meanwhile, the Naumanns' marriage is in crisis.
Reviews
Todd McCarthy described the novel adaptation as "intelligent" and "precise" . However, the film is "ice cold" and cannot find a way to involve the viewer. Richard Gere is not convincing in his role.
Film-Dienst wrote that the film was a “popular adaptation of a novel, which hardly does justice to the multi-layered original” , “because despite the solid primer it is more committed to the surface” , “without going into the depths of the Kabbalistic mysticism” . As a “family film about a loving, helpless but despotic and selfish father who loses sight of the essentials, it is nevertheless entertaining” .
Awards
Flora Cross was nominated for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award in 2006.
backgrounds
The film was shot in San Francisco , Berkeley, and a few other locations in California . Its production amounted to an estimated 14 million US dollars . The world premiere took place on September 3, 2005 at the Telluride Film Festival , which was followed on September 11, 2005 by the Toronto International Film Festival and later several other film festivals. The film grossed approximately US $ 4.4 million in cinemas worldwide, including approximately US $ 1.2 million in selected US cinemas.
Web links
- Bee Season in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bee Season at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Bee Season at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Film review by Todd McCarthy, accessed April 25, 2008 ( Memento December 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Bee Season in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed April 25, 2008
- ^ Filming locations for Bee Season, accessed April 25, 2008
- ↑ Box office / business for Bee Season, accessed April 25, 2008
- ↑ Release dates for Bee Season, accessed April 25, 2008