To celebrate this Friday’s release of the highly anticipated and critically acclaimed Beasts Of The Southern Wild, we’re giving you the chance to win three great Studio Canal films on DVD: Submarine, Spirited Away, and Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth.
One of the most talked about films of the year, Beasts Of The Southern Wild is the highly acclaimed festival favourite of 2012. Featuring an awards-touted performance from its 8-year old star Quvenzhane Wallis, it glows with an irrepressible and life-affirming power that has enchanted audiences and critics at worldwide.
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the world by a sprawling levee, six year-old Hushpuppy exists on the brink of orphanhood. Her mother long gone, and her father Wink a wildman on a perpetual spree, Hushpuppy is left to her own devices on an isolated compound filled with semi-feral animals. She perceives the natural world to be a fragile web of living, breathing, squirting things, in which the entire universe depends on everything fitting together just right. So when a hundred year storm raises the waters around her town, her daddy is suddenly stricken with illness, and fierce pre-historic creatures awaken from their frozen graves to come charging across the planet, Hushpuppy sees the natural order of everything she holds dear collapsing around her. 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 an unstoppable catastrophe of epic proportions.
To be in with a chance of winning, simply answer the following question:
What is the name of the character Quvenzhane Wallis plays in Beasts Of The Southern Wild?
A) Sweetpea
B) Hushpuppy
C) Cutie Pie
To enter, simply follow us on Twitter here and @reply us the correct answer. Deadline 28/10/12.
Waters gonna rise up, wild animals gonna re-run from the grave, and everything south of the levee is goin’ under, in this tale of a six year-old named Hushpuppy, who lives with her daddy at the edge of the world. Catch Beasts of The Southern Wild at the BFI London Film Festival, and in cinemas 19 October.
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