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Review: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'  Posted: Updated: Beasts
of the Southern Wild 90 minutes rated PG-13 Opening June 27th in
select theaters.  By Scott Mendelson  Opens in limited release
on Wednesday, June 27th  Beasts of the Southern Wild is among
the most transporting films you're likely to see. Director and
co-writer Benh Zeitlin, using Lucy Alibar's play Juicy and
Delicious, crafts a fully enveloping world that is both pinpoint
specific and all-encompassing enough to be a timeless fable.  On
the surface, it is a character study of one six-year-old girl as
she comes to terms with the possibility of becoming an orphan as
a natural disaster devastates her dirt-poor backwoods community.
 Yes, it's about people surviving Hurricane Katrina and yes, it
contains certain social/political commentary, but it is a
universal saga of grief and survival.  The film's greatest
narrative strength is that it refuses to be a representative
saga of the impoverish