'' Mud '' premiered on , 2012 at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival , where it had a competition slot for the festival 's prizes including the Palme d'Or . Reuters reported that the film " earned warm applause at a press screening " . '' Variety '' s film critics Justin Chang and Peter Debruge considered '' Mud '' one of their favorites of the film festival . Debruge said the film was reminiscent of the novel '' Huckleberry Finn '' : " It so elegantly addresses what masculinity and family really mean in the heartland . " He said the Mississippi River in '' Mud '' was " a mythic backdrop ... in which old values struggle against stronger modern forces in the world "
2012 Cannes Film Festival
2012 Cannes Film Festival
Mud (2012 film)