The staggeringly ambitious and stylistically bold first feature by Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild took the Sundance Film Festival by storm with its eccentric, wholly unique vision of ecological apocalypse. Hushpuppy (an astonishing debut by Quvenzhané Wallis) is a six-year-old girl living with her boozing father Wink (Dwight Henry) in a Louisiana shantytown called “The Bathtub,” so named because its location in a valley will cause it to be totally wiped out in the event of a flood. When the rains do in fact come and the town is duly washed away, Hushpuppy and Wink embark on an increasingly bizarre odyssey to restart their lives, and the world itself. Unforgettable, indescribable and unmissable. (TIFF)
Advisories:
- Disturbing Content
- Mature Subject Matter
- Saturday November 3, 2012 at 9:15PM
- Sunday November 4, 2012 at 4:15PM
- Thursday November 8, 2012 at 7:00PM
- Saturday November 10, 2012 at 9:00PM
- Sunday November 11, 2012 at 4:00PM
- Monday November 12, 2012 at 8:30PM
- Wednesday November 14, 2012 at 7:00PM
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