Beasts of the Southern Wild

This is the story of Hushpuppy, who lives with her ailing, stubborn father in the Bathtub, a little slab of land in constant threat of disappearing through the frequent storms that flood it. A group of locals refuses to leave.

Hushpuppy gets some rough treatment from her father, because he wants her to grow up strong and survive in the world after he's gone, which is likely to happen sooner rather than later, as he suffers from a heart condition.

When the locals are forcefully evacuated after blowing a hole in a nearby levee that threatens their existence they break out of the medical camp again and return to the Bathtub. Tough group.

Hushpuppy is on a constant search for her missing (deceased?) mother while a horde of mythical aurochs roam the land and eventually face off with the little girl. But since Hushpuppy is 'the man', what chance can they possibly have?

The 9-year-old Oscar nominated Quvenzhané Wallis (and no, I have no idea how to pronounce that, either) is simply wonderful, carrying the entire film on her tiny (and then 5-year-old) shoulders.

9/10