Film Search
Beasts of the Southern Wild
2012 | 91 minutes | Rated PG-13
"The whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right," declares Hushpuppy, the fierce, nappy-headed girl at the center of this extraordinary southern gothic. Played with iron conviction by young Quvenzhane Wallis, Hushpuppy lives with her father in a wild, ramshackle community, called the Bathtub for its precarious location on a post-Katrina flood plain near the Gulf of Mexico. As her remark might suggest, the movie throbs with a religious belief in the natural world's interconnectedness, and its setting is a poetic juxtaposing of industrial garbage and oceanic splendor. Writer-director Benh Zeitlin, who started out as an animator, drew on a close-knit crew of former New Yorkers who now call New Orleans home and have tried to combine film production with community education; this organic approach is evident in the movie, whose eccentricity seems to grow right out of the red clay.
See our full review:
The haunting southern gothic Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin's film portrays life on a Louisiana floodplain »
Official Site: beastsofthesouthernwild.com
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Producer: Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, Philipp Engelhorn, Paul Mezey and Michael Raisler
Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Pamela Harper, Gina Montana, Nicholas Clark and Jovan Hathaway
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Producer: Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, Philipp Engelhorn, Paul Mezey and Michael Raisler
Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Pamela Harper, Gina Montana, Nicholas Clark and Jovan Hathaway
Related Stories
-
The haunting southern gothic Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin's film portrays life on a Louisiana floodplain
- Jul 3, 2012
- « Previous day
- Monday, January 21
- Next day »
Lakeview
- Mon 10:45 am, 12 pm, 2:30 pm, 5 pm, 7:30 pm, 9:50 pm
