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How Bee Season lost its sting on the screen. Plus: An audio interview with author Myla Goldberg.
By Boris Fishman | 4:59 PM Nov 11, 2005

The first thing one notices about Richard Gere in his otherwise sensitive performance as Saul Naumann, the domineering patriarch of a Jewish family in existential tailspin in Bee Season, is that he doesn’t seem very Jewish. Neither, for that matter, does Juliette Binoche, the magnificent French actress who plays Miriam, Saul’s silently suffering wife with ...