Tell It to the Bees

Tell It to the Bees

Romance • Drama

75%

Tell It to the Bees

Tell It to the Bees

NR

5/3/20191h 46m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

~ Some secrets are too powerful to keep. ~

Overview:

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

Director:

Annabel Jankel

Status:

Released

Language:

English

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Revenue:

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Key words:

based on novel or book
scotland
lesbian relationship
working class
lgbt
woman director
1950s
failed marriage
beekeeper
lesbian

Cast

Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin

~ as ~

Jean Markham

Holliday Grainger

Holliday Grainger

~ as ~

Lydia Weekes

Emun Elliott

Emun Elliott

~ as ~

Robert Weekes

Steven Robertson

Steven Robertson

~ as ~

Jim

Lauren Lyle

Lauren Lyle

~ as ~

Annie Stock

Gregor Selkirk

Gregor Selkirk

~ as ~

Charlie Weekes

Kate Dickie

Kate Dickie

~ as ~

Pam Stock

Billy Boyd

Billy Boyd

~ as ~

Older Charlie (voice)

Euan Mason

Euan Mason

~ as ~

John

Zara Howell

~ as ~

Chanting Girl 2

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Full review: https://www.tinakakadelis.com/beyond-the-cinerama-dome/2021/12/28/kept-you-like-a-secret-tell-it-to-the-bees-review

Adapted from Fiona Shaw’s book of the same name, Tell it to the Bees is a historical romance centering on a relationship between two women. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) is a new doctor in a town in Scotland in the 1950s. She begins a friendship with a woman named Lydia Weekes (Holliday Grainger) after Lydia’s son Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) develops a fascination with Jean’s bees. Lydia is married to an abusive man (Emun Elliott) and their marriage is falling apart. In Jean, Lydia and Charlie find a supportive and caring person to lean on.