Review of Bee Season (2005) by Meredith Brody for Chicago Reader — 31 May 2016
The directors exercise their stylistic flourishes mainly in the imaginative sequences depicting the young daughter's trancelike state while she conjures up the correct orthography in the spelling bees her father's determined she must win, and while the film observes the same heartbreaking obsessiveness as the popular "Spellbound," it has none of that documentary's cuteness.
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This review of Bee Season (2005) was written by Meredith Brody and published by Chicago Reader on 31 May 2016.
Bee Season has generally received mixed reviews.
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