Honeyland's reviews
Media reviews
New York Times
The opening minutes of Honeyland are as astonishing ? as sublime and strange and full of human and natural beauty ? as anything I?ve ever seen in a movie.
The Playlist
It?s a quiet and passive film that?s content to luxuriate in place and revel in solitude, which, in turn, both drags the narrative?s loose pacing and instills a certain natural structure that, once embraced, becomes almost mesmerizing.
Variety
The opening frames of Honeyland are so rustically sumptuous that you wonder, for a second, if they?ve somehow been art-directed.
The Hollywood Reporter
As with any vérité portrait, there are many things that go unexplained. But the images tell us what we need to know: The unforced choreography between Hatidze and the bees.
The Washington Post
The film by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov is a strange and curious thing: part fly-on-the-wall anthropology, part ecological fable.
Vanity Fair
Honeyland is thankfully too interested in the particulars of Hatidze to reduce her to demographic trivia. What matters, the movie tells us, isn?t that she?s exceptional in the trivial sense, but that?s she?s exceptional in who she is.
Screen Daily
The result is a careful chronicle that, while staying true to its observational ethos, nonetheless, leaves plenty of questions.