★★★★☆ (4/5)
Spyros (played by Marcello Mastroianni) is a middle-aged, stone-faced man who has recently retired from his career as a schoolteacher. The story begins on the day of his youngest daughter’s wedding, an event that seems to emphasize his growing detachment from his family and his wife, Maria. Feeling like an outsider in his own life and contemporary Greece, Spyros decides to leave everything behind. He takes up the ancestral trade of his father and grandfather—beekeeping—and sets out in his lorry on an annual spring journey from the north to the south of Greece to follow the blooming flowers.
The Beekeeper (1986), directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos, is a cornerstone of Greek art-house cinema and the second installment in his acclaimed Trilogy of Silence
