Powerful independent film about the transience of childhood innocence
Angel or devil? Horror sets in when boundaries blur. Annie, a 'Kid-Thing', tears, bites, crushes, bursts and shoots at everything she gets her hands on while roaming around. And then a cry for help makes its way to Annie's ear: in the middle of this Texas nowhere – with goats, garbage, animal carcasses and here and there a few people under a wide blue sky. Her father reads a book with the beautiful title "How to Become a Better Person?" But the answer to Annie's "How do they know what's best?" is only a laconic "They just do".
From hyper-realistic independent motifs and fairy tale topoi, the Zellner brothers create something very special: disturbing, comical, brutal, spunky and melancholic. And you would think that Annie's outcry "I'm not afraid of nothing" comes from the soul of the film itself. "Kid-Thing" is independent cinema, shot on a minimal budget, as taciturn as it is powerful and unruly as its protagonist.
Festivals / film awards
- 2012: Berlinale, DE, Official Selection Forum
- 2012: Sundance Film Festival, USA, Official Selection
- 2012: SXSW Film Festival, USA, Official Selection
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