Criticism of ‘20,000 species of bees’, the Spanish film that swept Berlin and Malaga

In hours of literacy of care, that the debut of Estibaliz Urresola dares to mix caresses and maternal love with a discreet amalgam of negotiations and small blackmail, that is hard, committed sincerity. The first bars of the film awaken the memory in low key of the sticky and jungle families of Lucrecia Martel, echoes that take root in the forms of cinematographic realism to act as a mirror.

However, Urresola remains so captivated by the discoveries that its actresses offer him, and here is the commendable work of Sofía Otero (that creature whom everyone calls Aitor, even though he does not recognize himself in the name), who unleashes the bellows of the questions that his images arouse. The film will take refuge, instead, in a sparse script and more concerned with explaining the ability of the trans to remove the mud from a conflictive normality, rather than getting us out of our boxes.

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Address: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren Distribution: Sofia Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabaraín, Itziar Lazkano Country: Spain Year: 2023 Release date: 21–4-2023 Gender: Drama Script: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren Duration: 129 min.

Synopsis: Cocó, eight years old, does not fit the expectations of the rest and does not understand why. Everyone around him insists on calling him Aitor but he does not recognize himself in that name or in the eyes of others. Her mother Ane, plunged into a professional and sentimental crisis, will take advantage of the holidays to travel with her three children to her mother’s house, where her mother Lita and her aunt Lourdes live, closely linked to the breeding of bees and the production of honey.