In Tell It to the Bees, Annabel Jankel’s adaptation of Fiona Shaw’s book, Holliday Grainger plays single mother Lydia, a woman shunned by her community and abandoned by her loathsome husband who must find work and support both herself and her son Charlie (Gregor Selkirk).
When the reserved Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) moves back into town, Charlie strikes up an unlikely friendship with her over some bees. She tells him that he can tell his secrets to the bees and so begins a bond that keeps the boy happy when the world is crumbling around him. And with things getting increasingly more desperate for Lydia, she and Charlie end up moving in with the doctor. With the move, though, comes the rumours of Jean’s past indiscretions and the potential negative influence that may have on young Charlie.
Grainger is absolutely phenomenal as Lydia, brilliantly exploring the many sides to her character.
When the reserved Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) moves back into town, Charlie strikes up an unlikely friendship with her over some bees. She tells him that he can tell his secrets to the bees and so begins a bond that keeps the boy happy when the world is crumbling around him. And with things getting increasingly more desperate for Lydia, she and Charlie end up moving in with the doctor. With the move, though, comes the rumours of Jean’s past indiscretions and the potential negative influence that may have on young Charlie.
Grainger is absolutely phenomenal as Lydia, brilliantly exploring the many sides to her character.
- 7/18/2019
- by Amanda Keats
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Vertigo Releasing has released a new UK trailer and poster for ‘Tell It To The Bees’ starring Oscar-winner Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger.
Directed by Annabel Jankel (co-creator and director of Max Headroom), the film also stars Kate Dickie, Emun Elliott (Prometheus) and the voice of Billy Boyd (The Lord of The Rings Trilogy).
Also in trailers – Charlie’s Angels spring into action in first trailer.
The film is released in cinemas July 19th
Tell It To The Bees Synopsis
Dr Jean Markham (Paquin) 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 (Gregor Selkirk) 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 (Grainger) into Jean’s world.
Directed by Annabel Jankel (co-creator and director of Max Headroom), the film also stars Kate Dickie, Emun Elliott (Prometheus) and the voice of Billy Boyd (The Lord of The Rings Trilogy).
Also in trailers – Charlie’s Angels spring into action in first trailer.
The film is released in cinemas July 19th
Tell It To The Bees Synopsis
Dr Jean Markham (Paquin) 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 (Gregor Selkirk) 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 (Grainger) into Jean’s world.
- 6/28/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Based on Fiona Shaw’s novel, Tell It To The Bees centers on Jean (Anna Paquin), a doctor who returns to her southern Scotland home to take over her late dad’s medical practice. She befriends a young boy named Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) who shares her passion for bees (she is also a beekeeper), and during one [...]
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- 5/7/2019
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Tell It to the Bees Trailer Annabel Jankel‘s Tell It to the Bees (2018) movie trailer stars Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger, Gregor Selkirk, Kate Dickie, and Emun Elliott. Tell It to the Bees‘ plot synopsis: “A single mother Lydia (Holliday Grainger) who is abandoned by her husband [in 1950’s Britain], [...]
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- 3/11/2019
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen Anna Paquin on the big screen (and not fighting vampires), but fans of Jane Campion’s “The Piano” know that the second-youngest Oscar winner of all time is no stranger to non-episodic entertainment. Paquin will next star opposite actress and filmmaker Holliday Grainger in “Tell It to the Bees,” a period drama about two women who fall in love and are shunned from their rural British community.
Per the film’s official synopsis, the movie follows “Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) [as she] 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 (Gregor Selkirk) 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...
Per the film’s official synopsis, the movie follows “Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) [as she] 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 (Gregor Selkirk) 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...
- 3/8/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
"It's a small town, Jean." Good Deed Entertainment has released the official trailer for an indie romantic drama titled Tell It to the Bees, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. Based on Fiona Shaw's novel of the same name, the lesbian love story is set in England in the 1950s. A doctor returns to her small town to take over her father's medical practice, and falls for a mother of a lonely young boy whom she befriends. Of course, the local townspeople don't accept them being together, and their romance causes an upheaval in the town. The title refers to the bees that the doctor keeps, and the young boy she befriends who she instructs to tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger star, with Emun Elliott, Steven Robertson, Lauren Lyle, Gregor Selkirk, and Katie Dickie. Take a look.
- 3/8/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
U.K. sales and financing company Film Constellation has announced multiple sales on Annabel Jankel’s Tell It to the Bees, which first bowed in Toronto.
Vertigo bought the title for the U.K., Transmission for Australia and New Zealand, Lucky Dogs across Scandinavia and Canal+ in Poland.
Based on Fiona Shaw’s novel of the same name, Tell It to the Bees follows the story of Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) as she returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father’s medical practice. When a schoolyard scuffle lands Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) in her ...
Vertigo bought the title for the U.K., Transmission for Australia and New Zealand, Lucky Dogs across Scandinavia and Canal+ in Poland.
Based on Fiona Shaw’s novel of the same name, Tell It to the Bees follows the story of Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) as she returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father’s medical practice. When a schoolyard scuffle lands Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) in her ...
U.K. sales and financing company Film Constellation has announced multiple sales on Annabel Jankel’s Tell It to the Bees, which first bowed in Toronto.
Vertigo bought the title for the U.K., Transmission for Australia and New Zealand, Lucky Dogs across Scandinavia and Canal+ in Poland.
Based on Fiona Shaw’s novel of the same name, Tell It to the Bees follows the story of Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) as she returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father’s medical practice. When a schoolyard scuffle lands Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) in her ...
Vertigo bought the title for the U.K., Transmission for Australia and New Zealand, Lucky Dogs across Scandinavia and Canal+ in Poland.
Based on Fiona Shaw’s novel of the same name, Tell It to the Bees follows the story of Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) as she returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father’s medical practice. When a schoolyard scuffle lands Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) in her ...
London-based sales and financing house Film Constellation has sold North American rights for Annabel Jankel’s “Tell It to the Bees,” which stars Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger, to Good Deed Entertainment.
Good Deed, which is aiming for a spring theatrical release, has partnered with FilmRise on streaming and linear rights for the film.
The period drama, which received its world premiere as a special presentation at the Toronto Film Festival, is based on Fiona Shaw’s novel of the same name. It follows Dr. Jean Markham (Paquin) as she returns to the town she left as a teenager. A school-yard scuffle lands Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) in her medical practice, and this brings his mother Lydia (Grainger) into the doctor’s world. The two women are drawn to one another but in 1950s small-town Britain, their secret can’t stay hidden forever.
Other movies on Film Constellation’s Afm slate...
Good Deed, which is aiming for a spring theatrical release, has partnered with FilmRise on streaming and linear rights for the film.
The period drama, which received its world premiere as a special presentation at the Toronto Film Festival, is based on Fiona Shaw’s novel of the same name. It follows Dr. Jean Markham (Paquin) as she returns to the town she left as a teenager. A school-yard scuffle lands Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) in her medical practice, and this brings his mother Lydia (Grainger) into the doctor’s world. The two women are drawn to one another but in 1950s small-town Britain, their secret can’t stay hidden forever.
Other movies on Film Constellation’s Afm slate...
- 10/31/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Its principal themes and metaphors repetitively highlighted as if for a freshman lit course, “Tell It to the Bees” really, really wants you to know it’s based on a novel. One that presumably worked better than this hamfisted adaptation, the kind of movie that paints the past in simplistic terms to better affirm the wisdom of our evolved values today. Combining heavy-breathing (but not particularly convincing) lesbian romance with a rote bewildered-child’s Pov, plus lots of bees — metaphorical significance alert!! — Annabel Jankel’s Scottish period drama is a BBC-style tea cosy potboiler that will be best suited to appropriate small-screen outlets.
In a Scottish village in 1952, Lydia Weekes (Holliday Grainger) barely ekes out an existence for herself and young son Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) by working at the local mill. Her husband, Robert (Emun Elliott), hasn’t been “right” since he got back from the war. He’s...
In a Scottish village in 1952, Lydia Weekes (Holliday Grainger) barely ekes out an existence for herself and young son Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) by working at the local mill. Her husband, Robert (Emun Elliott), hasn’t been “right” since he got back from the war. He’s...
- 9/13/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Here’s first footage of Anna Paquin and My Cousin Rachel star Holliday Grainger in Toronto Film Festival romance-drama Tell It To The Bees.
The story chronicles a lesbian romance in 1950s Britain between a single mother who is dealing with the breakdown of her marriage, played by Grainger, and a doctor, returning to her small hometown to take over her late-father’s practice, played by Paquin.
Film Constellation handles sales on the pic, which also stars Kate Dickie, Emun Elliott, Steven Robertson, Lauren Lyle and newcomer Gregor Selkirk. Script comes from Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth, adapted from Fiona Shaw’s 2009 novel of the same name. Annabel Jankel directs.
Producers are Daisy Allsop, Nick Hill, Annabel Jankel, Nik Bower. Executive Producers are Deepak Nayar, Alison Owen, the BFI’s Lizzie Francke and Ben Roberts, and Sunny Vohra. Production companies are Reliance Entertainment Productions 8, in association with Taking A Line For A Walk,...
The story chronicles a lesbian romance in 1950s Britain between a single mother who is dealing with the breakdown of her marriage, played by Grainger, and a doctor, returning to her small hometown to take over her late-father’s practice, played by Paquin.
Film Constellation handles sales on the pic, which also stars Kate Dickie, Emun Elliott, Steven Robertson, Lauren Lyle and newcomer Gregor Selkirk. Script comes from Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth, adapted from Fiona Shaw’s 2009 novel of the same name. Annabel Jankel directs.
Producers are Daisy Allsop, Nick Hill, Annabel Jankel, Nik Bower. Executive Producers are Deepak Nayar, Alison Owen, the BFI’s Lizzie Francke and Ben Roberts, and Sunny Vohra. Production companies are Reliance Entertainment Productions 8, in association with Taking A Line For A Walk,...
- 9/6/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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