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| Year of first release: 2012 | |
| Director: Benh Zeitlin | |
| Actors: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Drama, Fantasy | |
| Conditions of visioning: 02.09.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012 | |
| Synopsis: We follow the life of a little girl and her father, in a Louisiana isolated from the rest of the world and going back to prehistoric ages. | |
| Review: The daughter/father story is not really my type of movies, so somebody else would have probably ranked the movie better. It is true that the little girl playing the main character is very good and touching. What I liked most is the way in which a very probable future is depicted. I imagine very well the oceans rising because of global warming, the USA building a giant dam around their southern states to block the water, and having to evacuate the area against the will of the people living there and who don't want to move. The surroundings render very well a post-apocalyptic future, probably thanks to the hurricanes wich regularly devastate the area. All around you see makeshift houses and boats. The music fits also very well. I heard that the director had first composed the soundtrack music to play with his band, but when he saw how good the movie looked, he re-wrote it completely for an orchestra. All for the best. | |
Rating: 6 /10
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Monday, September 3, 2012
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
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By casualty I read an article in Le Monde Diplomatique (see link below) that reminded me Beast of the Southern Wild. And suddenly I thought "The ecological desaster happening along the movie is not a dream or fiction, it is reality!" I was chocked. Especially that there is almost no political reaction to work against that nor to support these people. If the article raise some interest, watch the movie, and vice versa.
ReplyDeleteLink: http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2015/10/RUSH/53937