#Tell It to the Bees (Annabel Jankel

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"i remember what their time together meant. my mother’s life was brighter than it ever would have been, had jean not shown her the way. and my mother’s love gave jean the strength to stop running. to be proud."

Tell It to the Bees (Annabel Jankel, 2018)

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Queer Light & Dark Academia Movie Recommendations for Pride Month:

The World To Come (WLW) 2020; 105 mins; directed by Mona Fastvold

Another Country (MLM) 1984; 87 mins; directed by Marek Kanievska

Carol (WLW) 2015; 118 mins; directed by Todd Haynes

Maurice (MLM) 1987; 140 mins; directed by James Ivory

Cracks (WLW) (TW: abuse of a minor) 2009; 104 mins; directed by Jordan Scott

Dorian Gray (MLM) 2009; 112 mins; directed by Oliver Parker

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (WLW) 2019; 120 mins; directed by Céline Sciamma

The Danish Girl (Trans) 2015; 119 mins; directed by Tom Hooper

Tell It to the Bees (WLW) 2018; 106 mins; directed by Annabel Jankel

The Imitation Game (MLM) 2014; 113 mins; directed by Morten Tyldum

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I never remember the films I watch so this year I'm gonna add on this post everything I watch in 2023 and If I liked It or not:

13/01 La noche de los girasoles (Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, Spain 2006) 👍

20/01 the mummy 3 (Rob Cohen, USA 2008) 👍

22/01 bruised (Halle Berry, USA 2020) 👍👍

27/01 No matarás (David Victori, Spain 2020) 👎

29/01 As bestas (Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Spain-France 2022) 👍👍

10/02 Tomboy (Celine Sciamma, France 2011) 👍

11/02 Cerdita [short film] (Carlota Pereda, Spain 2018) 👍👍

17/02 Pride (Matthew Warchus, UK 2014) ❤️😢

19/02 Cinco lobitos (Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, Spain 2022) ♥️

19/02 Adalamadrina [short] (Carlota Oms, Spain 2019) 🤨

28/02 再见, 南屏晚钟 ( A dog barking to the Moon) (Lisa Zi Xiang, China 2019) 👍

03/03 Las mil y una (Clarisa Navas, Argentina 2020) 👍

18/03 Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, USA 1995) 👎

24/03 Tell It to the bees (Annabel Jankel, UK 2018) 👍👍

31/03 あん [Sweet Bean] (Naomi Wakase, Japan 2015) 👍👍

30/04 The meg (Jon turteltaub, USA 2018) 👍

05/05 La amiga de mi amiga (Zaida Carmona, Spain 2022) 👍👍

06/05 Fried gree tomatoes (Jon Avnet, USA, 1991) 👍👍🥲

03/06 La belle saison (Catherine Corsini, France 2015) 👍👍

10/06 Mi vacío y yo (Adrián Silvestre, Spain 2022) 👍

01/07 But I'm a cheerleader (Jamie Babbit, USA, 1999) ❤️ (again)

07/07 Las herederas (Marcelo Martinessi, Paraguay, 2018) 👍

21/07 Eldorado [doc] (Markus Imhoof, Germany-Switzerland, 2018) 👍👍👍

24/07 Barbie (Greta Gerwig, USA, 2023) ❤️

29/07 Cárceles bolleras [doc.](Cecilia Montagut, Spain, 2018) 👍👍

06/08 The prince of Egypt (Brenda Chapman , USA, 1998) 👍👍

11/08 Openheimmer (Christopher Nolan, USA, 2023) 😐

11/08 Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley, UK, 2022) 👍

24/09 Las buenas compañías (Silvia Munt, Spain, 2023) 👍👍

13/10 Chavela [doc.] (Catherina Gund/ Daresha Kyi, Mexico-Spain-USA, 2017) 👍👍

21/10 Secaderos (Rocío Mesa, Spain, 2022) 👍

21/10 Nimona (Troy Quane/ Nick Bruno, USA, 2023) ❤️

10/11 Rara (Pepa San Martin, Argentina/Chile, 2017) 👍

11/11 The half of it (Alice Wu, USA, 2020) ❤️

3/12 The hunger games: The ballad of Songbirds and snakes (Francis Lawrence, USA, 2023) 👍

9/12 Chuecatown (Juan Flahn, Spain, 2007) 👍👍👍

23/12 The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, USA, 2012) 👍

23/12 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence, USA, 2013) 👍

27/12 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay pt1 (Francis Lawrence, USA, 2014) 👍

28/12 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay pt2 (Francis Lawrence, USA, 2015) 👍

Total: 40

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Tell It to the Bees (Annabel Jankel, 2018)

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"You should tell the bees your secrets. Then they won't fly away."

Tell It to the Bees (2018) dir. Annabel Jankel.

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Tell It to the Bees (2018)

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This week's Queer as Fiction episode talks about the 2019 film and 2009 novel Tell It To The Bees. Tune in for discussions of lesbian romance in post-World War II Scotland, bee-wrangling and the realism of attack bees, and unreliable narrators.

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Tell It To The Bees (2018)

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Tell it to the Bees (2018)

Annabel Jankel

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Tell It to the Bees, 2018, dir. Annabel Jankel

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Tell it to the Bees (2018) Annabel Jankel

January 11th 2020

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10 Most Anticipated Holdovers of 2019

The ten films with festival releases or releases in their home countries in 2018 I can’t wait to see in 2019.

Birds of Passage dir. Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra

I am as tired as anyone of films about Latin Americans focusing on the drug trade, but Birds of Passage promises to bring a new and careful eye to what could have been a stereotypical tale. Already shortlisted for the Oscar’s Best Foreign Language Film category representing Colombia the film, which debuted at Cannes, focuses on a Wayuu family whose fortunes rise along with the illegal trade of drugs trafficked out of Colombia.

Fast Color dir. Julia Hart

Starring one of my favourite actresses, the always stellar and frequently underused Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the film debuted at the 2018 SXSW film festival where it garnered praise for being a low key indie about a woman with supernatural abilities who can create rather than destroy. Despite stellar reviews this sort of shockingly disappeared from the festival circuit. Nevertheless it was able to get distribution meaning that I’ll finally get a chance to see it in 2019.   

High Life dir. Claire Denis

This was pitched as Denis’s most commercially accessible film to date, but when the film finally premiered at the 2018 TIFF it sounded like one of her strangest. Set in outer space the film stars Robert Pattinson as a convict put through strange reproductive experiments. Reviews seem to indicate it’s a polarizing film, but no matter how strange the material it sounds like something I can’t wait to watch.  

Little Woods dir. Nia DaCosta

This was one of my top 18 most anticipated films of 2018 when it debuted simply because I like Tessa Thompson and Lily James who play sisters who are forced into one last drug run funnelling prescription medication from Canada into the U.S. Since the film premiered at Tribeca it was quickly picked up for distribution, but perhaps an even more important indicator of the film’s quality is that DaCosta was plucked from obscurity to direct the reboot of Candyman for Universal, a still staggeringly rare occurance for women directors.

Mouthpiece dir. Patricia Rozema

Based on the award-winning hit play written and performed by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, the film adaptation has them resuming their (one) role as Cassandra, a woman struggling over writing the eulogy of her mother who gave up her career to raise children. Rozema is one of those low-key directors who has steadily put out masterful work over the years and the film was named one of the top 10 Canadian features of 2018 by TIFF.

The Nightingale dir. Jennifer Kent

After her debut film The Babadook turned into a surprise hit Kent had plenty of offers to go to Hollywood and make mainstream films. Instead she returned to Australia and made a revenge thriller about a young Irish convict looking to avenge her family. The film premiered at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, the only film directed by a woman to appear in official competition, and went on to win the Special Jury Prize.  

Rafiki dir. Wanuri Kahiu

Kahiu’s film has made waves since its Cannes premiere. It first made headlines as the first Kenyan film to be screened at Cannes only to have this positive news quickly eclipsed by the news that the film, about two teenage girls who fall in love with each other, had been banned in Kenya where homosexuality is illegal. Kahiu successfully sued the Kenyan film board to allow a limited screening for Oscar eligibility, and is currently in the middle of a second lawsuit to have the ban permanently overturned.

Tell It To the Bees dir. Annabel Jankel

Based on the book of the same name, Jankel’s film follows two women, a small town doctor (Anna Paquin) and a beekeeper (Holliday Grainger) who fall in love in rural 1950s Scotland. The stills from the movie are giving me Desert Heart type vibes which is more than enough to make me want to check this one out. 

Vita & Virginia dir. Chanya Button

I first heard about this film sometime in 2014 back when Romola Garai was set to play Vita Sackville West and Sacha Polak directing.  Let 2019 be the year I finally get to see it! A historical biopic about the romance between writers Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton) and Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki in pitch perfect casting!) the stills from the movie are already more than enough to pique my interest.

The Weekend dir. Stella Meghie

Canadian director Meghie has had a meteoric rise putting out three films in the last three years. The Weekend is her latest effort, a light-heart romcom starring SNL breakout Sasheer Zamata as a woman who gets into a romantic entanglement with her ex after she decides to spend the weekend with him and his new girlfriend. I’ve enjoyed Meghie’s previous two films and as a lover of romcoms there sounds like no reason I won’t enjoy this one as well.

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Tell It to the Bees (Annabel Jankel, 2018)

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Annabel Jankel, Tell it to the bees, 2019.

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Tell It To The Bees (2018)

dir.: Annabel Jankel

Holliday Grainger & Anna Paquin