Beasts of the Southern Wild
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
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Synopsis
Teeming with magic, beauty and pure joy, this crowd-pleasing winner at the Sundance Film Festival has emerged as one of the year’s most acclaimed films. Newcomer Quvenzhané Wallis delivers an “Oscar®-worthy performance” (Philadelphia Daily News) as Hushpuppy, the six-year-old force of nature in an isolated bayou community. When her tough but loving father Wink (Dwight Henry) succumbs to a mysterious malady, the fierce and determined girl bravely sets out on a journey to the outside world. But Hushpuppy’s quest is hindered by a “busted” universe that melts the ice caps and unleashes an army of prehistoric beasts.
Disk Information
Disc 1: Theatrical Feature Blu-ray
**The Making of Beasts of the Southern Wild
**Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Director Benh Zeitlin
** Auditions
** Glory at Sea
** Music
** The Aurochs
** Theatrical Trailer
Disc 2: DVD + Digital Copy
Cast & Crew
Reviews
A beautiful, strange tone poem about childhood and innocence.
The atmosphere Zeitlin develops here is moist with promise and danger, and he moves back and forth between outright fable and pungent reality with an astounding sureness of vision for a first-time director.
Beasts of the Southern Wild marks one of the most auspicious American directorial debuts in years.
Beasts of the Southern Wild is like outsider art: patched together with found materials, conjured up by untrained artists (the actors), and evocative of a truly American attitude of eccentricity, boldness, transcendence.
It hews to no aesthetic or political party line. It is simply life, seen through the kaleidoscope eyes of a brave, imaginative child.
