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The Wild Boys

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The Wild Boys

Released Aug 24, 2018

1h 50m

Adventure

Fantasy

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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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Critics Consensus

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Mario C

Disturbing imagery of sexual violence and pederasty, such that the film made me feel physically ill. Some may find the fevered and strange nature of the film, the low budget special effects and bizarre scenes intriguing, and more to them. For me, I wish I had never seen any of it. It definitely did elicit a visceral reaction from me, but so does stepping in warm and fresh dog feces, which I think I would have found more enjoyable. I think some will enjoy it, and the actors clearly put soul and sweat into the roles. I kept watching to see how disturbing it could get until I could not physically endure.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/30/24

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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

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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

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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

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Le procureur

Pauline Lorillard

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Sam Louwyck

Le Capitaine

Elina Löwensohn

Séverine

Vimala Pons

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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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