everything about this film- from the lighting, to the editing, to the dialog between sisters, to the fade-as-small-scale-time-lapse technique, to the loose narrative (almost without plot, as the word is conventionally defined)- combines to create the effect that we are travelling back into our own childhood minds as we watch. "The Spirit of the Beehive" is not so much a story about a single fictional child as it is a reminder that children, living in the same disturbing world as adults without any guarantee of shelter from loss or grief or disillusionment, have the ability to cope in incredible ways. it's hard to say much about this movie except that it was transporting, filled with the awe and discovery of being young without any condescension, and without forgetting that there is pain and confusion (right alongside joy and beauty) in living, from day one on.
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