The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
An impressively mature directing debut from Italian actress Valeria Golino, who crafts an often engrossing character study around an assisted suicide activist.
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Italy, France · 2013
1h 36m
Director Valeria Golino
Starring Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Cecchi, Libero De Rienzo, Vinicio Marchioni
Genre Drama
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Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devoted her life to befriending the elderly and terminally ill before euthanizing them. Valerie Golino's directorial debut carefully navigates the moral dilemma of the practice while offering a humanizing character study of Irene and those whose lives she touches.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
An impressively mature directing debut from Italian actress Valeria Golino, who crafts an often engrossing character study around an assisted suicide activist.
Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
Driven by a no-nonsense ethos, the film avoids sentimentality the same way its main character avoids sentiment.
The Playlist by Kevin Jagernauth
For all its minor faults of under-developed characters and disjointed scenes, “Honey” is worth seeing not only for the compelling performances from the two leads but for the incredibly effective use of light, reminding us just how much other films take it for granted.
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
Trinca delivers a marvelously unfussy performance, rendering her complex character gradually, along with the effects of the opposing forces that tear at her.
ts small achievement is in trying to understand the life-and-death choices of two people who aren’t as certain about what they’re doing as they initially appear.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Honey, the impressive debut feature by Ms. Golino, sustains a contemplative mood with undersaturated cinematography that evokes the world as perceived through a light mist.
Village Voice by Zachary Wigon
With striking compositions and cuts that reveal a deep appreciation of cinema's possibilities, Valeria Golino's Honey could be about anything at all and still demand and hold your attention; that the narrative is as moving as the film is aesthetically precise is an added delight.
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