Land of honey

Edyth 2022-03-27 09:01:19

I watched it with the mentality of watching a documentary, but I didn’t expect it to be a feature film, but it was shot in a documentary style, with extremely cold and restrained shots, writing the life of a beekeeper who was isolated from the world in the remote mountains and forests. Before her death, the old lady said, "Can you imagine that spring will come? Spring should not come, I have experienced too many winters", and burst into tears instantly! The radio is the only way for the village to communicate with the outside world. The bees are her only survival. She also loves beauty and will go to the market to buy hair dye, but all her bees are dead. This is where there is nowhere to go, apart from cats and dogs, in addition to wild wolves that haunt at night, in addition to neighbors' children, a person experiences birth, old age, sickness and death, such a calm, unbearable loneliness and suffering. The family with many children was very common in the village when I was a child. I remember being beaten by my father once when I was too lazy to break the corn. It's so sad to see, that's how my childhood came to be, except that there are no bees, the rest of the films are exactly the same. 【2021 Swiss Documentary Film Festival Lumière Studios】

Xzavier 2022-03-28 09:01:11

Suffering and love are like poetry and oil painting. When I was a child, I lived next to the railway. Every year, the beehives on the train to Xinjiang were flooded with bees, and I would be stung into a pig's head. Now when I see the child being stung and crying in the movie, I can't breathe with laughter.