Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

markallankaplan "Bee Season" is a multi-dimensional cinematic masterpiece with subtle streams of subtext swirling just below the surface, sweeping us into a deep and gentle journey of emotional and spiritual transformation. This little film is filled with deeply penetrating multi-layered representations of familial archetypal roles of spouse, father, mother, son, daughter, and sibling, mystical and metaphysical wisdom, and haunting reflections on the deep human psyche, shadow, and the powerful undercurrents of buried memory. Slowly, these subtextual streams rise and become the text in this beautiful cinematic work. This is a gentle, haunting, sacred, mystifying, and subtly profound motion picture. In the final moments, there is revelation that is beyond what can be spoken. For some this is a difficult movie to watch because of its transmodern approach to story, shifting the ground underneath what we normally experience as text and subtext, but if you can open yourself to this wondrous little film it will feed your heart and soul.

wsiko2 I watched this movie with my young daughter because she was practicing for her local spelling bee and we had already seen "Akeelah and the Bee". We both thought "Bee Season" would have a similar uplifting story as Akeelah. Boy we're we wrong.Not that I did not like this film, but as it progressed I realized we weren't in Kansas anymore. Then half way through the film I looked at the DVD jacket again to see if it was directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It was not. But I kept waiting for him to make a cameo appearance. Basically if you like M. Night Shyamalan type films you will like this one then. Unfortunately nothing is wrapped up neatly or to anyone's satisfaction at the end of the film (oh dear, is that a spoiler?). All though things start out normally for this family of four, they quickly become abnormal. They seem the perfect suburban upper middle class family. By the end of the film they are far from it.(As I am typing this review I realize I would fail a spelling bee, ironic?). I think you have to see this film at least twice (maybe more)to really appreciate it. I wish it would have delved more into what the father was thinking about how he felt his wife and son were behaving or what they had become. Although this film left you with a lot to think on, it had the potential to be so much more. Hmmmm....kind of reminds me of "the Happening". I am not going into the actual events of the characters and events in the film , as that has already been covered very well in other reviews I have read here. I just wanted to give you my "take" on it. When I finish viewing a film, I determine whether I really enjoyed it or not by asking myself "Would I watch this film again". In this case my answer was "yes".

cattieloves I was browsing through the comments for this movie and was sadly disappointed - it seems no one has read the book upon which the movie was based. I was reading Bee Season and heard there was a movie that was made a few years ago, so I made a mental note to check it out when I finished the book. Then, when I saw it in a bargain bin at K-Mart for $5, I couldn't pass it up.I popped it in and immediately loved the cast - Richard Gere was an unexpected but wonderful choice for Saul, and Ms. Binoche made an achingly poignant Miriam. The casting for Aaron and Eliza was great, too, although I pictured Aaron more stereotypically nerdy (he was far too attractive and mainstream in the movie, I thought - in the book, he was constantly being made fun of and picked on). They made subtle changes in the movie, some I wasn't very thrilled with - changing Aaron and Saul's guitars to a cello and a violin, changing the time line of the story so that Eliza only goes through one bee season instead of two, etc. And I thought changing Chali's gender was a big mistake - in the book, Aaron was attracted to Chali's seemingly freeing beliefs, not because he had pretty blonde hair and big dreamy eyes. I would just say to anyone who is thinking of seeing this movie, and to those who were dissatisfied with it, READ THE BOOK! Please, go and read it - don't let your judgement of the movie cloud the beautiful and interesting story that Myla Goldberg has invented. Ms. Goldberg has a profound gift for prose, and she weaves the tale from every perspective represented. Because she writes with third-person omniscience, you as the reader get a chance to see into each character's thoughts at all times, which really helps you get a sense of the real story going on as the family unravels. You find that Eliza is incredibly sensitive and mature for a nine-year-old, that Aaron is desperate for deep and heartfelt validation as a person and as a man, and searches for it everywhere, and that Saul is the sort of person so wrapped up with big and lofty things that he misses the beautiful, seemingly insignificant but jarringly important things all around him, like the fact that his children are clamoring for his attention and love, and his wife has been stealing for 18 years. Seriously, how distracted can you be?You even begin to relate to Miriam's frantic attempts to put herself back together through taking things that don't belong to her. If this author can make stealing seem reasonable, ha ha, I'd say she is going to do great things. I, for one, am looking forward to scouring the library for other Myla Goldberg novels. A warning, though: there are some scenes in the book that, if included in the movie, would have given it an "R" or even an "X" rating. Just FYI for those who are interested. So, as a summary: Bee Season the movie - So so. Bee Season the book - Wonderful.

Robert J. Maxwell Well, just about every kind of quirk you might expect to find in a nice Jewish academic family in Berkeley is tucked away somewhere in this leisurely trip through misunderstandings.Richard Gere, gone white and looking great, does most of the talking and most of the moving. He teaches Hebrew Studies, he coaches his son on the cello, he always cooks dinner at home. (Pretty liberated, eh?) Now Gere isn't frenetic as he sometimes has been, as in, say, "Power". His buzzing activity mostly stands out because nobody else has much of it.His wife, Juliette Binoche, has lost her family and wanders around with all the substance of a wisp of smoke. It turns out she's covering up some quirky activities, even for a family like this. She has a garage full of broken trinkets she's collected from other people's properties. They hang from the ceiling in a multitude of sparkling threads, tinkling a little bit, as Gere discovers them and goggles at the sight.Then there's the son, Aaron. Gere is a devoutly religious man who would like to be a mystic but is reduced to merely studying Jewish mysticism. But the son? Well, he's a whiz on the cello. With a father like Gere you could hardly be other than a whiz at whatever he urged you to try. And Aaron is searching for God too. But where does he find God? In the now-defunct Hare Krishnas. Of course it could have been worse. Aaron might have dug up some suicide cult. But still, for some people it must be getting a bit tiresome to deal with people who have learned that God is communicating with them. Andy Warhol once claimed that he'd been given a dead phone but that God was supposed to be on the other end waiting for his call. Warhol never made the call because he could never think of anything to say. Doctor Fielgut's advice is this: Do find God, if you can, but then whatever he tells you keep it to yourself.Oh, yes. Then there's the little daughter, reserved, soft, vulnerable, unamazing in any way until she discovers that she has some form of synesthesia regarding words. When she hears "cotyledon" defined, she closes her eyes and is swirled about with leaves. When Gere finds this out -- WOW! TWO geniuses in the family, not including him and Juliette Binoche who is "a scientist." Aaron and his cello are put on the back burner while Gere hovers over his daughter and tells her emphatically that God is in the letters. In the end she teaches him a valuable lesson too, humility.There's something distasteful about judged performances like spelling bees though. I say this not only because Barbara Lukashinsky came in first, to my second, in a fifth-grade spelling bee, just because I misspelled a stupid word like "nickel" and she got it right. No, it's not that at all, even though she didn't deserve first prize.It's that like other judged performances, spelling bees are a zero-sum game. One can only "win" at the expense of someone else. It's competition in its purest form. You win the prize by beating everyone else. But who wins a prize for cooperation? Or self sacrifice? Roger Bannister was the first person to run a 4-minute mile. Does anyone remember who was the second runner to break four minutes? It isn't that competition is necessarily bad per se. It can boost team solidarity and even be fun. The main problem with spelling bees is that they encourage lazy, categorical thinking about either "victory" or "defeat", while "compromise" has no part in the contest.This is a pretty slow movie. It's almost European. It's stuffed with far too many themes, like the kaleidoscope (did I spell that right?) that Binoche hands down to daughter Emily. Impossible to grasp them all. But it's a nice change to see a film that challenges us.