Genre: Fantasy drama
Rating: M 93’ NFT mature themes
Cast: Quvenzhane Wallis, Lowel Landes, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly
Director: Benh Zeitlin
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
Reviews:
"There's no trace of calculation, only artistic ambitions and hopes that have come to fruition in the year's finest film thus far." Joe Morgenstern Wall St Journal
"Spielberg will love this film, if he doesn't already. Zeitlin's ability to create a believable world out of seemingly impossible ingredients is just that good." Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com
"Director Behn Zeitlin and co-writer Lucy Alibar crafted a small miracle here, a delicate mix of hardscrabble fact and childish fantasy, tapping the poetry of ignorance from the perspective of a child." Steve persall, Tampa Bay Times
Screened at MIFF this year
If you liked...Where The Wild Things Are...you will love BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD