From wowing audiences at various film festivals has been hotly tipped and highly hyped, and it doesn't take much to see why.
Here we have a beautiful, glorious, extravagant film, where an incredible amount of authenticity and natural feeling emerges from an utterly unreal situation.
Set on a fictional island in a Bayou filmed in Louisiana, not far from New Orleans, instantly places the film in a post-Katrina/climate change context.
This is a film that harks the potential destruction of the world from our collective lack of environmentalism, through an odd-ball community who live almost entirely naturally, with recycled items and junk-yard homes.
It features incredible performances given the majority of actors in this film are amateurs, in particular the adorable Quvenzhané Wallis, as Hushpuppy, who the film is largely presented by.
It's a simple tale of a father-daughter relationship, but the way the film is put together (at times seen on screen) is simply incomparable.
It is bizarrely simultaneously depressing and uplifting, with an incredible, Godspeed You! Black Emperor-esque soundtrack, which rumbles in and out throughout the film, and perfectly measures the overwhelming moods that crash in as the narrative hurdles towards its touching climax.
Easily one of the best of the year, if not further.
Here we have a beautiful, glorious, extravagant film, where an incredible amount of authenticity and natural feeling emerges from an utterly unreal situation.
Set on a fictional island in a Bayou filmed in Louisiana, not far from New Orleans, instantly places the film in a post-Katrina/climate change context.
This is a film that harks the potential destruction of the world from our collective lack of environmentalism, through an odd-ball community who live almost entirely naturally, with recycled items and junk-yard homes.
It features incredible performances given the majority of actors in this film are amateurs, in particular the adorable Quvenzhané Wallis, as Hushpuppy, who the film is largely presented by.
It's a simple tale of a father-daughter relationship, but the way the film is put together (at times seen on screen) is simply incomparable.
It is bizarrely simultaneously depressing and uplifting, with an incredible, Godspeed You! Black Emperor-esque soundtrack, which rumbles in and out throughout the film, and perfectly measures the overwhelming moods that crash in as the narrative hurdles towards its touching climax.
Easily one of the best of the year, if not further.