The Beekeeper(O melissokomos)
Dir: Theo Angelopoulos
Greece/Italy, 1986, Greek/French, 122mins, DCP
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani
Chronicling the aimless life of a middle-aged schoolteacher, this is a dark and sombre portrait of profound disconnection, solitude and obsolescence. Embarking on his family traditional vocation of apiculture to get away from strained family relations, the man of the past desperately attempts to connect with the realities of an unfamiliar modern world through a promiscuous young hitchhiker who lives for the present, only to confirm his disenchantment with the future. In the legendary Marcello Mastroianni's Spyros the father figure reincarnates, embracing the solemn silence and loneliness in a deeply personal journey that starts and ends with the doomed fate of his hives.
Venice Film Festival: In Competition
23/1(Sun): Film talk with Angela Law
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Cancelled 2022-01-23 (Sun)
19:35Cancelled 2022-02-20 (Sun)
15:00
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
The Metroplex
Festival Grand Cinema
the sky
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
MOViE MOViE
CINE FAN ONLINE
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
M+ Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
The Grand Cinema
Broadway Hollywood
Cine Moko
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction