You know that feeling like someone’s made a movie especially for you? Well that’s how I feel about this one. Told through the eyes of a 6 year old girl, Hushpuppy, Beasts of the Southern Wild takes us on a journey into the Bathtub, a pretend bayou backwoods community in Louisiana that’s basically a metaphor the edge of the world. It looks magical and beautiful. Here are some official images and the poster, thanks to FilmStage.

Beasts of the Southern Wild took home Sundance’s top Dramatic Grand Jury Prize award this year, and everyone whose seen it is super excited about it. Quvenzhané Wallis who plays the lead character “delivers perhaps the greatest child performance of recent history”, says FilmStage, and they call the movie “a whirlwind of wonder and foreboding doom.”

I love the treatment of the world through a little person’s eyes in grown up films – Pan’s Labyrinth and Where the Wild Things Are – equal parts totally awful and depressing and completely amazing. Give me monsters and dreams and blanket forts over the adult world – pay cheques and weddings and grim ‘reality’ – pretty much any day. The beasts are coming! The beasts are coming!

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What are some other great grown up children movies?

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.

Directed by Benh Zeitlin and written by Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin. Starring Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry and Levy Easterly.

Beasts of the Southern Wild will be released in America on June 27, 2012 and hopefully in New Zealand at some point…