Bees Make Honey (2017)

Bees Make Honey: Directed by Jack Eve. With Alice Eve, Hermione Corfield, Trevor Eve, Joséphine de La Baume. A widow hosts a gathering for her high-society friends in an attempt to help solve her husband’s murder.

“The basic plot in Bees Make Honey is fairly routine – Honey (Alice Eve) is convinced that her husband was murdered at last yearu0026#39;s Halloween party. To find the killer, she invites the exact same guests to this yearu0026#39;s party. But she also invites a police detective to help her unmask a murderer.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s not that I disliked Bees Make Honey, but it could have been so much better. My biggest issue was the lack of focus. Iu0026#39;m a sucker for a good mystery. But too often, director Jack Eve seemed to turn his attention to anything but the mystery. Give me clues, suspects, motives, etc. – thatu0026#39;s what I want. I suppose that what it boils down to is that I wanted a different movie, one with a good old fashioned, drawing room style mystery. Instead, what a I got was a mystery buried under kitchy characters, crazy musical interludes, and bizarre scenes that seem to exist only to be bizarre (a Nazi doing line after line of coke, for example).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI will give Eve credit for ambition. Just a few minutes in and itu0026#39;s easy to see Eve and Bees Make Honey have style to burn. And the movie looks fantastic. Costuming, sets, and lighting are all amazing. Being set during a Halloween party helps create the fantastic imagery. And I was impressed with Eveu0026#39;s sister, Alice Eve, in the lead. She brought real life and energy to Honey. Itu0026#39;s too bad her main co-star, Wilf Scolding, couldnu0026#39;t keep up.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e5/10”