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More Than Honey

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Switzerland, Germany, Austria · 2012
1h 30m
Director Markus Imhoof
Starring Fred Jaggi, Randolf Menzel, John Miller, Liane Singer
Genre Documentary

With dazzling nature photography, Oscar–nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) takes a global examination of endangered honeybees — spanning California, Switzerland, China and Australia — in an in-depth documentary more ambitious than any previous work on the topic.

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Time Out by

Although the unexplained collapse of honeybee colonies is a global problem, the most startling moments in Markus Imhoof’s documentary take place on a microscopic level.

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New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

Without any preachiness, this magically beautiful film urges us to take better care of the bees, and honor the irreplaceable things that they do for us.

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The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore

A film whose fascination with bees and their mammoth impact on the global food chain extends far beyond the subject of colony collapse disorder. Arthouse audiences will eat it up.

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NPR by Mark Jenkins

The documentary's most memorable vignette is suitably unnerving: a visit to northern China, where the threatened disappearance of bees has already come to pass, leaving workers to pollinate fruit trees ... by hand.

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Boston Globe by Peter Keough

Though overloaded with narration, “Honey” triumphs visually, with stunning shots of bees in flight, tracked in slow motion, “Winged Migration”-style, by who-knows-what technical wizardry.

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Village Voice by Stephanie Zacharek

More Than Honey isn't just 91 minutes of dead bees. Who could bear that? Instead, it's a delightful, informative, and suitably contemplative study of the bee world and the bee-population crisis, though in the end it does offer enough dewdrops of hope to fill up a bluebell or two.

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