Sundance 2012: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ is Phenomenal Cinema

This is it. This is the discovery of Sundance 2012. The film that everyone is going to be talking about after the fest. And it lives up to the hype. But forget about all of that, go see this without knowing anything about it, just that it’s phenomenal, and you’ll experience it the way all of us did. Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin and created by the collective Court 13, is an utterly phenomenal piece cinema, an astounding, mesmerizing, heartbreaking, wonderful adventure taking us to another world, a world set in wet southern Louisiana known as the “Bathtub”. This is a film that reminds me why I love cinema so much. It’s hard to even explain the concept of Beasts of the Southern Wild in text and I don’t even want to begin to try and explain what the story is about, because it’s truly best to …