There are many films with spiritual aspects, but Bee Season explicitly deals with spirituality. Spirituality per se may be such an internal matter that making a film about spirituality is a challenge that will almost certainly fall short. In some important ways Bee Season does come up short. But in spite of its shortcomings, the film also has some spiritual insights worth considering.

The Naumann family looks very typical when we first encounter them. Saul, the father, teaches religious studies at a college. Miriam, the mother, is a scientist (although the film really doesn’t give us much to establish her professional life). Their two children, Aaron and Eliza seem to fit the roles they play in the family. Saul is the center around whom the family exists. To be invited into his office is to be brought into the Holy of Holies. Early in the film, we see him taking Aaron there so they can play music together. When Eliza has news from school, rather than knock, she meekly slips the envelope under the office door.

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