My Garden of a Thousand Bees review – a joyous film on the unbearable lightness of bee-ing

2026-03-25 - 21:19

This gasp-inducing documentary shows a man buzzing over the remarkable insects that bumble around his garden ... and ended up changing his life Martin Dohrn likes bees. Big bees, small bees, angry bees, randy bees, bees with voluminous ruffs and calves like tiny Henry VIIIs – rare is the bee that Dohrn doesn’t deem worthy of ... what, exactly? Appreciation? Or something more profound? “It’s hard to explain,” says the veteran wildlife photographer, peering at us through his red-framed glasses while perched at his gadget-strewn kitchen table. “But I really feel for bees. They’re really ... I mean, I could say they’re my friends.” Continue reading...