Beasts of the Southern Wild
One of the most striking films ever to debut at the Sundance Film Festival.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
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.
Genre
Drama
Web Site
Runtime
94
Language
English
Director
Benh Zeitlin
Cast
Quvenzhané Wallis,
Dwight Henry
Awards:
Winner, Grand Jury Prize ~ Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival
Winner, Cinematography Award, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Peter Debruge, Variety
At home in the Bathtub, a marshy swampland off the coast of southern Louisiana, 6-year-old Hushpuppy lives by a simple code: "When you're small, you gotta fix what you can." It's a fitting mantra for Benh Zeitlin's "Beasts of the Southern Wild," a stunning debut that finds its dandelion-haired ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 7.06.12 - 9.13.12
Claremont 5 7.13.12 - 8.07.12
NoHo 7 7.20.12 - 8.09.12
Monica Film Center 7.20.12 - 9.13.12
Town Center 5 7.27.12 - 8.09.12
Lumiere Music Hall 11.30.12 - 12.06.12
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