Beasts of the Southern Wind

At the 2012 Sundance Movie Festival in Utah this film took top honors and has spurred interest across the country.  Beasts of the South Wind is equally strange and tantalizing and I can see why it caught the attention of the Sundance crew.  What is so interesting about the film, I've found, is the number of perspectives that can be established in a single movie.  One important thing about the medium of film: it controls the POV for the audience. But his film gets around that by acting like a vat of loose symbols floating in a bathtub.  I remember a quote of Hemingway's after he was asked about the symbolism in the Nobel Prize winning novella Old Man and the Sea,  he stated that his story was merely a fictionalized account of a newspaper clipping and the symbolism is brought into the story by the reader.  Beasts of the South Wind accomplished a similarly rich, symbolic-minefield with a strange combination of primitivism and contemporary culture/history.  Besides being a total trip to think about, it also will charm the pants right off you...metaphorically speaking of course.

Beasts of the Souther Wind is playing at the Fleur Cinema & Cafe with regular showings.