Beasts is a transcendental film that enables the viewer to swim through a child’s memories, witness a hurricane and flood, watch a man die, see a home vanish. But is the imagery too transcendent and romantic?
Michael Pasquier
Michael Pasquier, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Louisiana State University, is author of Fathers on the Frontier (2010), editor of the forthcoming Gods of the Mississippi (2013), and co-editor of the Journal of Southern Religion. He is currently working on a documentary about a levee-less fishing town in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.