Last updated on February 24, 2023
A film by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
With Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain, Itziar Lazkano, Sara Cózar
An eight-year-old is suffering because people keep addressing the child in ways that cause discomfort. During a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping, the child and mother experience revelations that will change their lives forever.
Our review: –
Simply the worst film we saw in Berlin. A TV movie at most, indigestible by its repetitive and hollow dialogues, its staging, its overall realization lacking almost everything (surprise, strength, mastery, personality, originality, quality, …). 20,000 species of bee is part of a line of films that seek with a subject that tends, consciously or not, to fall into empathetic miserabilism, but that lacking finesse, or strength, by choosing a false path of the middle that thinks it is benevolent, opts for a tone that is as boring as possible and that appeals neither to the intelligence nor to the meaning, preferring commonplaces in a communication enterprise belonging more to very naive publicity around a cause (certainly interesting to put forward, to bring to knowledge, and not to reduce to an overly simplistic expression) rather than to the proper function of cinema, on the side of art, of thought and of the author’s act. Tearful more than moving, time has suspended us well suspended …
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