The Wonders (2014)

- PICKED BY AYUMI-
May 2021

Halfway between paradise and purgatory: the place is all honey, no milk. On the swollen hillsides of Umbria, a family is scratching out a life keeping bees by the traditional method. So much is encompassed by its seemingly modest reach: the slow onset of adulthood, but also the fading of the old ways, and the faintly jarring note of incomers such as Gelsomina and her family being their last and keenest practitioners of a fading Italian rurality.

Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/the-wonders/review/