La vita segreta delle api

The art direction is marvelous, but this is a story set in the South of the 1960s. Even the all-star cast has trouble making it feel real

I get why Dakota Fanning keeps getting offered these motherless waif roles in Southern-fried melodramas. Those saucer eyes, that lunar pallor, the Georgia accent, the guts to rat her hair into a dull mat and skulk around in shabby rooms that scream my-daddy-drinks. What I don't get is why she keeps taking them.
Not that " The Secret Life of Bees," Gina Prince-Bythewood's high-minded and expensive-looking adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's bestselling novel, exists on the same plane as "Hounddog," the scrappy little howler otherwise hysterically (and speciously, it turns out, but that's show business) known as "the Dakota Fanning rape movie. [...]

di Carina Chocano, articolo completo (4193 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 16 ottobre 2008