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Les bêtes du Sud sauvage

Original title: Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • 2012
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
86K
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Les bêtes du Sud sauvage (2012)
Faced with her father's fading health and environmental changes that release an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy leaves her Delta-community home in search of her mother.
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Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways... Read allFaced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.

  • Director
    • Benh Zeitlin
  • Writers
    • Lucy Alibar
    • Benh Zeitlin
  • Stars
    • Quvenzhané Wallis
    • Dwight Henry
    • Levy Easterly
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    86K
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    • Director
      • Benh Zeitlin
    • Writers
      • Lucy Alibar
      • Benh Zeitlin
    • Stars
      • Quvenzhané Wallis
      • Dwight Henry
      • Levy Easterly
    • 314User reviews
    • 480Critic reviews
    • 86Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 4 Oscars
      • 90 wins & 135 nominations total

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    Quvenzhané Wallis
    Quvenzhané Wallis
    • Hushpuppy
    Dwight Henry
    Dwight Henry
    • Wink
    Levy Easterly
    Levy Easterly
    • Jean Battiste
    Lowell Landes
    • Walrus
    Pamela Harper
    • Little Jo
    Gina Montana
    • Miss Bathsheba
    Amber Henry
    • LZA
    Jonshel Alexander
    Jonshel Alexander
    • Joy Strong
    Nicholas Clark
    • Boy with Bell
    Joseph Brown
    • Winston
    Henry D. Coleman
    • Peter T
    Kaliana Brower
    • T-Lou
    Philip Lawrence
    Philip Lawrence
    • Dr. Maloney
    Hannah Holby
    • Open Arms Babysitter
    Jimmy Lee Moore
    • Sgt. Major
    Jovan Hathaway
    • The Cook
    Kendra Harris
    • Baby Hushpuppy
    Marilyn Barbarin
    • Cabaret Singer
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Benh Zeitlin
    • Writers
      • Lucy Alibar
      • Benh Zeitlin
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    6davylevine

    Over-rated, over-hyped, formless, plot less, trite .. and I still liked it

    As I said, I thought the film is over-rated, over-hyped, formless, basically plot less, and trite. The father is a mean drunk (who still loves his kid), and the kid is a solemn and wise six year-old. Two stereotypes, wouldn't you say? They live in The Bathtub, a shattered but colorful community on the gulf side of the levee. The community is comprised of other drunk people who also love and care about Hushpuppy, the young girl. Hushpuppy is quite precocious, interested in things that don't usually concern girls of her age: the after-life, ecology, such eternal questions as the meaning of life. She of course loves her mean drunk father and all the furred and feathered creatures that live in their little farmlet. There is an air about the film that is surreal. The characters in their madness are a bit like the characters in Mad Max. They are all over-sized and eminently watchable in their enthusiastic inebriation. But I wished for a few moments of lucidity, where people just talk to each other without ranting and raving. The overall impression that I got is one of sadness. There is very little joy -- other than that which comes from the bottle -- in their lives. This said, I enjoyed the movie. It is very watchable, but in a guilty sort of way. Their lives are painful. It is set in a part of the world that we don't normally see, with people we would generally avoid. Technically it is very well done. The visuals are great. I would recommend seeing it but not attending too much to the surrounding hype.
    9ignominia-1

    The word is: Magic Realism

    What is so difficult to understand? If we suspend belief for Spiderman, The Hulk and King Kong why can't we believe in this story?

    I wonder whether some viewers are so addicted to the rhythm of plot driven movies to render them unable to appreciate a story like this, a story that sees the world through the eyes of a child who knows nothing of what we know. If you are one of those, go read somewhere else. I am not going to give you a synapse but my humble opinion on its meaning and possibly its intent. Or more surely, what I got out of it.

    The beauty of this movie lies in Hushpuppy, a child young enough to be nonjudgmental, and her vision of life and its inhabitants. She has her own wisdom and is, like all children, taking things quite literally.

    At first the hand-held camera-work and insufficient light-fill to illuminate the deep shades gave me the impression that this was a documentary style movie, a story reporting the lives of a group of people living off the grid in some southern state of the United States. But when I understood that the "Beasts" of the title was not a judgment of the movie's humans and their poverty, their ignorance, their unsophistication- but only an alternate noun for "animals" which the protagonists calls both her pets and humans alike, I started seeing the movie for what it really is: A dream, a fantasy, an imaginary story that merged with the contemporary awareness of global warming, and so a low tech sci-fi prediction of how the world may soon become.

    With that key I read most character's actions: the father figure who needs to train his child to survive, inciting her "to show her guns" and be self assured; the woman who teaches children the use of herbs to cure, the meaning of magic and mythology; the tolerance of the other adults for what, in a parallel reality, would definitively been child abuse. All this is righteously done to prepare the children to survive in a world that was(is?) going from merely hard to impossible.

    Wink's seemingly unsentimental and insensitive behavior towards the little wee child makes then perfect sense and thus his letting go when she can keep at bay, the Aurochs (a metaphor for her still childlike imagination) and her ability to step out of that world and into that of an adult ("I've got to take care of mine now") is the proof that she had grown up enough to survive on her own.

    Looking back to it, this movie is a miracle as improbable as that of La Vita é Bella, where Benigni infused humor in a story about the Holocaust without becoming offensive or demeaning. Beasts of a Southern Wild is able to merge a child's world with that of an adult; to make us see how the effects of global warming will challenge the lives of many; it is a comment and a reminder of Katrina, its victims and consequences; finally it is a poetic way of describing the world and its inhabitants, escaping the ugliness and despair of certain realities by converting it into hope, survival and beauty.
    Kirpianuscus

    great

    the first temptation is to compare it with other films about same theme. and you discover it is unique. unique because it is a fantastic translation of the refuges and visions and creativity and courage of an unique age. than for an extraordinary child actor. not the last, for the feel to be part of film. to see the landscapes, to touch the things, to be near the courageous girl, to hope save the situation of the poor father. it is a dream and a fairy tale and a seductive pledge to see, for other side, the life. it reminds the drawings of children, always more serious and realistic than you imagine its. and this small detail, the tension, the powerful flavor of freedom impose "Beasts of the Southern Wild" as something real special. maybe an experience. maybe vehicle to memories. maybe total show. maybe rediscover of territories living inside us.
    8mardalsfossen01

    Movie with beautiful moments, worth a watch!

    First and foremost - to the people who gave 1 or 2 stars:

    The movie does not deserve this few stars, don't be silly. The only reason you give 1 or 2 stars is to make the overall rating go lower and to get people to read your review.

    Now to the movie:

    It tells a very unique magical story while the fantasy part isn't as big as you could assume from the cover. It's more about the little girl Hushpuppy and her dad who live a simple life. There are some beautiful moments and if you give the movie a chance and actually watch it, there's not much to regret since it will take you on a journey worth seeing.
    9amanda-413-452347

    Once there was a Hushpuppy...

    The film is one of those rare examples of every element being extraordinary. The acting, the directing, the script, the music is all superb and blend together to create the magical world of the bathtub. The film looks and sounds amazing. Everything is so beautifully shot, with a crispness and a warmth. The score is used sparingly and is never manipulative. This may be one of those movies that everyone raves about but gets overlooked come Oscar season because it doesn't have a big enough name attached to it or pandered to the Academy enough, but it could easily be nominated for at leave four or five awards. http://amandalovesmovies.com/2012/07/02/beasts-of-the-southern-wild/

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    • Trivia
      Dwight Henry owned and operated the bakery across the street from the space where the crew was working and casting. Benh Zeitlin posted a casting flyer with tearaway numbers in Dwight's bakery. After several weeks, he invited Dwight over for a read. Two days later, Dwight moved his shop to a larger space, and when the crew went looking for him for a call back, no one knew where he went. When they located Dwight 2 months later, he turned them down because he was investing all his time in the new bakery. Finally, every single person involved with the film at that point showed up at his bakery at the same time and told him he had to do the movie. Dwight agreed, as long as they rehearsed with him during his midnight baker's hours.
    • Goofs
      During the height of the hurricane scene, Wink challenges the storm, with his rifle, as a means of comforting Hushpuppy and alleviating her fears. While he is outside in the hurricane winds and rain, only the trees in his immediate vicinity are violently moving. Trees in the background (perhaps beyond the reach of a wind fan) are perfectly still.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Hushpuppy: When it all goes quiet behind my eyes, I see everything that made me lying around in invisible pieces. When I look too hard, it goes away. And when it all goes quiet, I see they are right here. I see that I'm a little piece in a big, big universe. And that makes things right. When I die, the scientists of the future, they're gonna find it all. They gonna know, once there was a Hushpuppy, and she live with her daddy in the Bathtub.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Big Review: Summer Trailer Park Series (2012)
    • Soundtracks
      Valse De Balfa
      Performed by The Lost Bayou Ramblers

      Written by Will Balfa

      Published by Flat Town Music Company (BMI)

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    • Release date
      • December 12, 2012 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Fox Searchlight
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Beasts of the Southern Wild
    • Filming locations
      • Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, USA
    • Production companies
      • Cinereach
      • Department of Motion Pictures
      • Court 13 Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $1,800,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $12,795,746
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $169,702
      • Jul 1, 2012
    • Gross worldwide
      • $21,107,746
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 33m(93 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Datasat
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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