A … The heroine is 50-something Hatidze Muratova, who lives in a tiny hut in a ruggedly mountainous area of Macedonia, 20 miles from the nearest town and seemingly hundreds of years from modernity.
But there is plenty of time for the American viewer to feel the deepest shame about our nation’s indifference to Syria and its refugees. But during the three-year period in which they filmed, something serendipitous happened. But she is as confident and imperturbable here as in the wilderness, boldly haggling with vendors. Parceling them out between scenes of ordinary life gives some respite, but ultimately makes the indictment of war even stronger by constantly reminding us of the humanity of the people we see coping with horrific violence.
(A hysterical woman in the hospital spots her with her camera and screams, “Film this!
Such images of ruin are familiar from newspapers and on television, but here their message is different: this is a city that is loved, that is home, despite everything. Given her exceptionally poor living conditions in the nearly deserted hamlet of Bekirlija, Hatidze would often say that her main wish, out of her newfound fame, is to move to a better house in the near-by village of Dorfulija which offers far better living standards. Elem Klimov’s monolithic war films finally makes its way to DVD and Blu-Ray
The filmmakers use contrasting visual styles to emphasize the gulf between two ways of life, with jerky handheld camera intensifying the chaos and messiness of Hussein’s hapless family, the parents always yelling at their unwashed, unruly children. Ahmeti insists that he is in the Hague merely as a witness, although the prosecutors would not confirm this statement. Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, the makers of Honeyland, followed Hatidze for three years, accumulating 400 hours of footage. The mother, Nazife, is a one-eyed crone with a child’s voice, who occasionally arrests the film with a poetic utterance.
Susan Sontag, Sweden, 1969; Kino Lorber, DVD & Blu-RayElem Klimov’s monolithic war films finally makes its way to DVD and Blu-RayMore than words: the subtitler of Godard, Assayas, and others talks about the process in this accompaniment to our May-June 2020 Art and Craft article (The filmmakers say the Sams welcomed them, and that they are still friendly, despite how badly the parents come off in the film.) This non-chronological time scheme is well-crafted, and perhaps necessary, since the scenes from the hospital during the bombing are so hard to watch.
Given her exceptionally poor living conditions in the nearly deserted hamlet of Bekirlija, Hatidze would often say that her main wish, out of her newfound fame, is to move to a better house in the near-by village of Dorfulija which offers far better living standards… As with many scenes in
Susan Sontag, Sweden, 1969; Kino Lorber, DVD & Blu-Ray When Hamza’s hospital is bombed, killing 53 people, footage from security cameras shows people going about their business, then a jolt and cloud of dust before the cameras cut out, leaving the screen black.
The fragility of innocent life in the midst of war is most spectacularly illustrated by a centerpiece of the film, an emergency Caesarean performed on a woman after a bombing, a scene with more suspense than any Hollywood thriller.While the superhumanly stoic Hamza and his team fight to save lives, Waad commits herself to documenting the darkest hours of her city and her movement. PARIS (AFP) — Watch out at the Oscars on Sunday for Hatidze Muratova.You can’t miss her. Due to its location in a secluded mountain, the village has no access to electricity and running water. In “Honeyland,” about the beekeeper Hatidze Muratova, who lives in isolation with her mother, it’s as if the reality of Muratova’s life were too messy for the filmmakers’ hermetic schema. Listen on Apple Podcasts. This is the first of many surprises in At first, as the film wordlessly follows Hatidze on her treks through the desolate countryside and the ruins of a village where bees live among the stones of crumbling walls, we could be watching a movie about survivors in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or even a story set on another planet, so alien does this life seem.
Deep within the Balkans, Hatidze Muratova is the last in a long line of Macedonian wild beekeepers. Quiet returns, winter comes; Hatidze chops firewood in the snow, chases wolves off with torches, sits by the little stove singing to her cats. Honeyland chronicles a period of Hatidze's life when her ancient methods of beekeeping came up against, and conflicted with, those of a newcomer to … In a hint to the scene in the movie where she is purchasing hair dye, Hatidze had a new hairstyle done at the Iv studio in Skopje.
Honeyland documents the life of Hatidže Muratova, a Macedonian beekeeper of Turkish descent who lives in the village of Bekirlija in the municipality of Lozovo. Her new neighbors don’t share her philosophy of taking only what’s needed from the bees.
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But for all its remoteness—the women live without electricity, running water, or neighbors—many things are universally recognizable in the relationship between the sturdy, middle-aged Hatidze and her bedridden, nearly blind mother: the familial bickering, the caretaking rituals of feeding and washing, the moments of tenderness.