The first film from Benh Zeitlin, it’s adapted from a stage play by Lucy Alibar called ‘Juicy and Delicious’. But this must be one of the least stagy adaptations ever made. Beasts of the Southern Wild is a soaring, poetic, magic realist film, a fairytale of a sort, set in ‘the bathtub’, a ravaged, swampy basin outside the flood barrier that was meant to protect New Orleans.
It’s not much but it’s home to six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis) and her ailing father, Wink (Dwight Henry), and a scattered group of hold-outs, too poor and proud to allow themselves to be relocated to what they call ‘the dry world’.
It’s not much but it’s home to six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis) and her ailing father, Wink (Dwight Henry), and a scattered group of hold-outs, too poor and proud to allow themselves to be relocated to what they call ‘the dry world’.
Hushpuppy lives in ramshackle hut a few hundred feet from her closest neighbour, her father. He knows his days are numbered and means to see that his girl is prepared to fend for herself. He may be overestimating her though: in one early scene she accidentally sets fire to the place.
The film chronicles their survival struggles in the wake of a great flood – it’s impossible not to think of the devastating Hurricane Katrina though it’s never named. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF7i2n5NXLo WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
The film chronicles their survival struggles in the wake of a great flood – it’s impossible not to think of the devastating Hurricane Katrina though it’s never named. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF7i2n5NXLo WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
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