
Carol(2015)
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.


“Some secrets are too powerful to keep.”
Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

Anna Paquin
Jean Markham

Holliday Grainger
Lydia Weekes

Emun Elliott
Robert Weekes

Steven Robertson
Jim

Lauren Lyle
Annie Stock

Gregor Selkirk
Charlie Weekes

Kate Dickie
Pam Stock

Billy Boyd
Older Charlie (voice)

Euan Mason
John
Zara Howell
Chanting Girl 2
Tell It to the Bees is a romance, drama film released in 2019 exploring themes of based on novel or book, scotland, lesbian relationship, working class, lgbt, woman director. Directed by Annabel Jankel, it stars Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger, Emun Elliott. Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.
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