Come along to Gloucester Guildhall this week to see a film which has already started to sweep away awards at film festivals.
Beasts Of The Southern Wild is a film about Hushpuppy is a little girl who lives a semi-feral life of freedom in the rundown Louisiana town The Bathtub, a place with no rules and no planning regulations. So when a storm floods the area, so she sets off with her sick father on a mission to reclaim their land.
After playing at a number of film festivals this is a film which is opening up to wider audiences. Whilst this film was on the film festival circuit it won a number of awards; the Caméra d'Or award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, which is where it premiered.
Beasts Of The Southern Wild is an extraordinary, deeply moving film that's one of the best of 2012. The emotional journey which the characters and audiences go on during this film is emphasied with the astonishing performances brought to us by Wallis (Hushpuppy) and Henry (Wink), two non-professionals drafted in from the metropolitan areas of New Orleans.
Both sink effortlessly into roles that have no template, Henry being especially convincing as the unsentimental Wink, who tries to reassure Hushpuppy on the night of the storm by picking an angry fight with it, blasting his shotgun up into the torrential rain. Wallis, however, holds her own, showing no fear as the intrepid, shock-haired tomboy.
*Beautiful, funny, timely and tender, this is the American arthouse movie of the year* Empire
*This film is a remarkable creation, imagining a self-reliant community without the safety nets of the industrialized world.* Chicgo Sun-Times
Watch the trailer to this amazing film below:
Beasts Of The Southern Wild is screening on: Friday 14th & 7.45pm, Saturday 15th at 10.45am & 7.45pm, Monday 17th at 2pm & 7.45pm.
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