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BEE SEASON For the sake of variety, we need more spirituality in the movies, which is why the very existence of Bee Season is a blessing even if its haphazardness makes it something of a curse. Based on the novel by Myla Goldberg, it centers on 9-year-old Eliza Naumann (excellent Flora Cross), whose lack of a defining skill initially makes her the odd person out in a gifted family that includes her college professor dad Saul (Richard Gere), her scientist mom Miriam (Juliette Binoche) and her musically inclined teenage brother Aaron (Max Minghella). But Eliza discovers she has a remarkable talent for spelling words, a skill that soon takes her through the ranks of the nation's bees. Yet Saul thinks there's more to Eliza's aptitude than meets the eye: Deeply immersed in religious studies, he suspects his daughter might be a modern-day mystic able to connect directly with God through language. As he devotes all his energy to her spiritual education, he fails to notice his son's burgeoning interest in a bubbly Hare Krishna (Kate Bosworth) or his wife's increasingly bizarre behavior. Binoche valiantly struggles to carry her unwieldy subplot, so clumsily presented that it repeatedly threatens to sink the entire project. Yet the efforts of the other characters to navigate their own spiritual waters remain compelling, even if it leads to a finale that isn't powerful as much as it's puzzling. Rating: ** 1/2

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