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Beeswax

Beeswax

2009
Comedy, Drama
1h 40m
A pair of identical twin sisters -- one, who has been paraplegic since youth and gets around in a wheelchair, and the other -- 'same face, different bodies.' (imdb)
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Beeswax

2009
Comedy, Drama
1h 40m
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Rated 17 Jun 2010
68
18th
I read an impassioned positive review of this over on IMDB that had me momentarily rethinking my original reaction to the film, but I have to go with my gut here: this was not good. Why? More than anything, I had a hard time mustering any kind of ANYTHING for what was happening on screen. I get the "real life" vibe that Bujalski was going for but that doesn't make the viewing experience an illuminating or pleasurable one. People converse, minor problems arise, stuff happen off-screen. The end.
Rated 15 Feb 2010
94
95th
This could be my favorite of Bujalski's three features, as his skilled use of nonprofessional actors allows us a window into the lives of real people struggling with who they're going to be and where they're going to go. Bujalski treats all of his characters like human beings, imbuing them with qualities both irritating and endearing. And as the film ends in his typically abrupt style, it leaves us with a sense of the depth, the comfort, and the pain all wrapped up in the family bond.
Rated 02 May 2010
63
60th
This time around it is not as refreshing as Funny Ha Ha was, nor as powerful as Mutual Appreciation. Bringing mundane conversational awkwardness to the big screen is still something that most filmmakers don't do, and it sets mumblecore and its top gun Bujalski apart, but in Beeswax it just seems less purposeful, less meaningful than it did in his previous movies.
Rated 07 Jun 2010
6
70th
I personally dig Bujalski's lo-fi style. This one has a little more cinematic flair than Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation - higher-quality film stock and much more plot; it even has an antagonist - but retains the same sometimes excruciatingly intimate feel. It ends on the biggest cliffhanger of all time, which is a little annoying.
Rated 02 Dec 2010
30
78th
"With Beeswax, Andrew Bujalski continues his project of crafting intensely observed, dialogue-driven character pieces that make use of nonprofessional actors and privilege the seemingly empty moments in conversation." - Andrew Schenker
Rated 24 Dec 2010
1
0th
You work very hard for tiny rewards. Only a cinema-illiterate could mistake this for an advance.
Rated 05 Jan 2011
77
86th
I can't quite explain why I like Bujalski's films so much. His protagonists often lack much personality and his characters' general hesitancy and "mumbliness" aren't terribly appealing qualities. The films have no real stories and the sets/cinematography are incredibly bare bones. So why do I like them? I don't know... I just do. They feel real. The dialogue feels real, the interpersonal relationships feel real, and when two characters kiss, it doesn't feel like contrived bullshit.
Rated 20 Jan 2011
55
11th
I feel like this lacked the drive of Bujalski's previous films, while at the same time the writing and production were much improved. It's hard not to feel like he has the ability to make a great film, but is just having trouble finding the best way to make that finally happen.
Rated 27 Aug 2011
38
34th
A few genuinely sweet and charming moments interspersed with some really annoying ones surrounded by a lot of mildly tedious inanity. Small-stakes and low-key not so much in any kind of wispy, poetic way but rather more simply somewhat pointless. Bujalski is competent at his own brand of talky naturalism, but almost willfully unimpressive and definitely uncinematic. Mutual Appeciation seems very much a fluke.
Rated 07 Oct 2013
35
17th
When in taking about movies subject of Mumblecore comes up, I describe them as micro budget youth movies about nothing. Truth is, they are usually about something trivial, and only on rare occasions I'm at my wits end to grasp some theme. Beeswax is really about nothing. Slice-of-life perhaps? I lead very dull, humble life myself, and yet it's more interesting than the plot of this film.
Rated 10 Jan 2014
4
52nd
it's hard to really pick out a flaw in this. it perfectly executes its goal. but its realism is so realistic as to make the film small and insignificant. nice, but it's like the least ambitious movie ever made.
Rated 10 Aug 2014
79
66th
Low-key, but quite well-made and moderately interesting "slice-of-life" drama typical of Bujalski's mumblecore style. Good performances... but the film simmers without ever really bubbling over into excitement, fun or involvement. Ultimately forgettable but passes the time.
Rated 10 Feb 2021
6
1st
It's hard to tell which movie I hated more, Beeswax or its twin, Funny Ha Ha. I have been known to enjoy some mumblecore before, but this faux real people leading real lives thing doesn't work if there aren't interesting problems to overcome, or some insight into the human condition. This style of mumblecore is just nothing.

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