BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (2012)

Cast

Plot

The devastated landscape of the Louisiana bayou becomes a primordial world in the eyes of a 6-year-old girl. Faced with the loss of everything she knows, Hushpuppy decides her only hope is to find her mother, her clue? a winking light in the distance. The movie is dense and rich, often as obscure and murky as the overgrown bayou itself, sometimes off-putting and enticing at the same time. And Wallis, her performance brimming with feral energy and a wounded soul, carries the film above its occasionally saccharine machinations.