Beasts of the Southern Wild

Beasts of the Southern Wild belongs to that rare category of films that convey a sense of the world, the feeling that a world truly exists, that it forms a complete world. One can discern the lyrical direction that celebrates both the splendors and the harshness of nature.

Beasts of the Southern Wild, a film by Benh Zeitlin (2012)
With Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Gina Montana
Duration: 93 min / Language(s): English / Production: Canada, United States

Six-year-old Hushpuppy lives in the bayou with her father. Suddenly, nature runs wild, temperatures rise, glaciers melt, releasing an army of aurochs. With the rising waters, the emergence of the aurochs, and her father’s declining health, Hushpuppy decides to set out in search of her missing mother.

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