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The Wild Boys (Les garçons sauvages) [Sub: Eng]
A different kind of drama is about adolescent youth at the beginning of the 20th century on the island of La Reunion. That story began when five teenagers from a good family committed a brutal crime. Things changed a short time later, when a Dutch captain, who was in charge of a repressive trip on a sailboat, prepared. Things seemed to change after that trip, as the captain's tactics were exhausted and the five boys rebelled. In the end, their connecting port will be a supernatural island.
6 January 1963, Paris, France
11 July 1966, Bucharest, Romania
December 16, 1993
March 15, 1986 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
August 26, 1966 in Dax, Landes, France
November 16, 2018
The Wild Boys is a supremely assured piece of craftsmanship... but for all the maturity of the command on display, there is little about it to suggest it was made by an artist who was trying to put adolescence behind him.November 14, 2018
There are pieces of this puzzle that beguile, and the whole endeavor is commendable for its audacity.January 07, 2019
Jean Cocteau meets David Lynch with a good dash of Colette in Bertrand Mandico's sensationally trippy 2018 release, Wild Boys.October 11, 2018
Gorgeous, bizarre, and unique enough to merit checking out, The Wild Boys is one of the most refreshing debuts of 2018.November 30, 2018
"The Wild Boys" is full of inventive and imaginative elements, which counterbalance the lack of plot.... Mandico focuses on creating a heady, dreamlike atmosphere that is both beautiful and disturbing.November 01, 2018
With his feature debut, Bertrand Mandico has created a work of art that's as full of angst as it is horny, a queer fever dream that's as much a nightmare as it is an erotic fantasy.August 24, 2018
an exciting sail on the waters of gender fluidity that energetically skewers any notion of the binary.November 16, 2018
Deliberately, alluringly unstable and destabilizing, 'The Wild Boys' is made even more turbulent by its superabundance of references and inspirations.December 13, 2018
Though Mandico's debut feature may seem to be a clever and provocative tale about gender identity and eradicating toxic masculinity, it's pure gender essentialism.May 10, 2018
I was drawn into its hermetically sealed world of oddness - and Mandico pays attention to character to a degree that experimental film-makers often don't bother with.November 14, 2018
It's all a bit too ludicrous to be sensuous or unsettling, or ultimately all that insightful.January 14, 2019
Mandico leaves nothing on the table here, and for that I must give him credit. It doesn't all work, but when it does, it's something to behold.