The Wild Boys (Les Garcons sauvages)

  • Rated Not Rated
  • 1hr 50m
  • 64

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Bertrand Mandico

Producer:

Emmanuel Chaumet, Mathilde Delaunay

Writer:

Bertrand Mandico

Release Date:

Aug 24, 2018

Runtime:

1hr 50m

Synopsis

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.

Cast

  • Christophe Bier
  • Pauline Lorillard
  • Sam Louwyck
  • Elina Lowensohn
  • Vimala Pons
  • Nathalie Richard
  • Diane Rouxel
  • Felipe Salazar
  • Anaël Snoek
  • Mathilde Warnier

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Metacritic

64
metacritic
Based on 5 Critics
6.8

USER SCORE (4)

Generally favorable reviews based on 4 Reviews
50
Dec 5, 2018

It’s hard to untangle the film’s many bizarre indulgences, which at times seem intended to titillate as much as disturb, and yet somehow do neither. It’s all a bit too ludicrous to be sensuous or unsettling, or ultimately all that insightful.

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Metacritic review by Bilge Ebiri
Bilge Ebiri
The New York Times
80
Aug 23, 2018

Writer-director Bertrand Mandico’s The Wild Boys is a heady, sexually charged take on “Lord of the Flies” — an exciting sail on the waters of gender fluidity that energetically skewers any notion of the binary.

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Metacritic review by Katie Walsh
Katie Walsh
Los Angeles Times
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