Few first-time directors will ever achieve
something as impressive as Benh Zeitlin’s debut, Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Narrated by child breakout Quevenzhane Wallis, Beasts brings lore, prehistoric nature and memory together to form
a sublime mediation on love and the inevitable. Zeitlin wrestles with the universe and natural order while
painting an intimate portrait of displacement and the search for where we come
from. The film is perhaps the
first (and best) metaphor of Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, and Zeitlin approaches
the catastrophe without a damning eye.
Beasts is an obsession with
history and the future set in a world parallel to ours.
Screenplay
by Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
Directed
by Benh Zeitlin
Produced
by Chris Carroll
Starring
Quvenzhane Wallis and Dwight Henry
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