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The Wild Boys

Play trailer 1:33 Poster for The Wild Boys Released Aug 24, 2018 1h 50m Adventure Fantasy Play Trailer Watchlist
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In the beginning of the 20th century, five children on the island of La Réunion commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.
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Debuting writer-director Bertrand Mandico's The Wild Boys impresses with the breadth of its ambitions -- and the skill with which they're often triumphantly realized.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas AWFJ.org For those open this kind of cinematic queering (not only of his characters, but of film form itself), in The Wild Boys Mandico and Löwensohn more than live up to the promise of their previous short film collaborations. Mar 12, 2019 Full Review Melissa Anderson 4Columns Deliberately, alluringly unstable and destabilizing, 'The Wild Boys' is made even more turbulent by its superabundance of references and inspirations. Nov 16, 2018 Full Review Bilge Ebiri New York Times It's all a bit too ludicrous to be sensuous or unsettling, or ultimately all that insightful. Nov 14, 2018 Full Review Juan Barquin INTO There's no clean way to describe this truly wild teenage journey disguised as an uncomfortable erotic fever dream full of phallic imagery, but it's the kind of fantasia worth diving deep into. Sep 17, 2021 Full Review Dustin Chang Floating World It plays out like a prettier, sexier Guy Maddin film. And its pan-sexual theme is not without a dash of humor. The beach fight/orgy scene complete with flying feathers and sand alone is worth the price of admission. Feb 13, 2021 Full Review Guillem Martinez Oya Cinematismo A masterpiece about the bipolarism we live in. A hallucinogen film about the influence of the gender in our society. A must of the LGTBIQ+ contemporary films [Full Review in Spanish] Rated: 5/5 Oct 15, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member I liked the first half and then it went downhill Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Sooo immersive, magical, hypnotizing, ambitious and original. Filmmakers should be bold like Mandico and make movies like this! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member the cinematography alongside the amazing acting led to the greatness that is "the wild boys." the twists in the plot and the articulation made for one of the best films i have seen in months!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In the beginning of the 20th century, five children on the island of La Réunion commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.
Director
Bertrand Mandico
Producer
Emmanuel Chaumet
Screenwriter
Bertrand Mandico
Distributor
Altered Innocence
Production Co
Ecce Films
Genre
Adventure, Fantasy
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 24, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 20, 2018
Runtime
1h 50m
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