Beeswax

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beeswax

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Directed by: Andrew Bujalski

year: 2009 100 minutes

World premiere at the 2009 Berlinale.

From director Andrew Bujalski (MUTUAL APPRECIATION), BEESWAX revolves around the personal and professional entanglements of twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren (played by extraordinary newcomers Tilly and Maggie Hatcher) living in Austin, Texas. Jeannie co-owns a bright, candy-colored vintage clothing store. When a conflict with her business partner threatens to boil over, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, Merrill (Alex Karpovsky), who is recently graduated from law school and all too eager to try to fix the sisters’ problems as a way of ignoring his own. Soon everyone is trying to lend each other a hand but nothing is going according to plan. Charming and intimate, this is a story about how we depend on our families (the kind we’re stuck with and the kind we build for ourselves) and the beeswax that holds them all together.

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Reviews

DavyneDial

Frankly, this movie is just irritating. I was hoping for something redeeming to evolve...but it's just pedestrian.


Sheila Caudillo

looks like it might be good so i put it in my queue


Jane

This is a really nice movie. Although it was subtle, and small in a way, it got at big ideas in a way that really held my attention all the way through, and made me think about it again and again.


matthewandamanda
matthewandamanda

Fantastic performances -- the lightness of the touch could easily fall into pointlessness, but brilliantly carried by the cast. Kind of a Cassavettes film for the low-affect era. Highly recommended.