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The Wild Boys

Les garçons sauvages (The Wild Boys)

2017

Bertrand Mandico

Christophe Bier, Elina Löwensohn, Vimala Pons, Nathalie Richard ...

6.5

909

Adventure. Fantasy At the beginning of the 20th century on the island of La Réunion, five adolescents of good family, enamored with the occult, commit a savage crime. A Dutch Captain takes them in charge for a repressive cruise on a haunted, dilapidated sailboat. Exhausted by the methods of the Captain, the five boys prepare to mutiny. Their port of call is a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.

	Media	Author	Review
		Cath Clarke The Guardian	"Mandico has made a wildly strange debut, striking enough to make you sit up and pay attention (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Bilge Ebiri The New York Times	"It’s hard to untangle the film’s many bizarre indulgences (...) It’s all a bit too ludicrous to be sensuous or unsettling, or ultimately all that insightful."
		Ryan Swen The Film Stage	"It is a gleefully transgressive experience, pushing a standard narrative so far that it becomes almost completely unrecognizable"
		Vassilis Economou Cineuropa	"Mandico has succeeded in translating his radical, poisonous and lustfully voyeuristic world into a feature-length format"

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