Film: Noble effort can't save the Beasts

Reviewed: Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin. Rating: 3/5. Ginger & Rosa, directed by Sally Potter. Rating: 3/5.

Alice Englert and Elle Fanning in Ginger & Rosa.
Alice Englert and Elle Fanning in Ginger & Rosa.

Reviewed: Beasts of the Southern Wild

**Directed by Benh Zeitlin**

**IFI, no cert**

**Rating:** 3/5

The winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance earlier this year, Benh Zeitlin's directorial debut **Beasts of the Southern Wild** is a deeply eccentric, strikingly immediate story of life and loss in the flooded wastelands of post-Katrina New Orleans.

Adapted by Zeitlin's artistic collective, ...