Filmmaker Benh Zeitlin mostly worked on short films before his huge success "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and "Glory at Sea", which sounds a like a military battle film, was his last short film effort even if it was still some years to go till his 2 Oscar nominations. Nonetheless you could already see quite some parallels between this and Beasts. Not only is the location the same, the topic is also pretty similar. I actually quite liked the start of the film with the underwater recordings, but sadly things did not stay that well. This 25-minute short movie is really (if at all) worth a watch only for the atmospheric setting. Compared to Beasts, it lacks performances as good as Wallis and Henry's and it lacks the excellent coming-of-age story. I found Zeitlin's work here rather underwhelming I just say. Not recommended. The material in this one is simply not interesting enough for over 10 minutes.
Review of Glory at Sea
