The Beekeeper Angelopoulos [new] -

In The Beekeeper , this sadness finds perhaps its most perfect vessel in Marcello Mastroianni. Cast against type, stripped of the suave, romantic lead he often embodied for Fellini, Mastroianni here plays Spyros, a man entering the winter of his life. He is a retired schoolteacher, a father giving away a daughter, and a husband to a swarm of bees he drags across a dying Greek landscape.

To search for is to journey into the heart of an artist who believed that cinema could be slower than thought, heavier than grief, and as patient as a hive waiting for spring. The Beekeeper Angelopoulos