The Wild Child

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Plot: François Truffaut's fascinating 1969 film, based on a real-life, 18th-century behavioral scientist's efforts to turn a feral boy into a civilized specimen, is an ingenious and poignant experien...( read more read more... )ce. In a piece of resonant casting that immediately turns this story into an echo of the creative process, Truffaut himself plays Dr. Itard, a specialist in the teaching of the deaf. Itard takes in a young lad (Jean-Pierre Cargol) found to have been living like an animal in the woods all his life. In the spirit of social experiment, Itard uses rewards and punishments to retool the boy's very existence into something that will impress the world. Beautifully photographed in black and white and making evocative use of such charmingly antiquated filmmaking methods as the iris shot, The Wild Child has a semidocumentary form that barely veils Truffaut's confessional slant. What does it mean to turn the raw material of life into a monument to one's own experience and bias? The question has all sorts of intriguing reverberations when one considers that Truffaut's own wild childhood was rescued by love of the cinema and that a degree of verisimilitude factors into his films starring Jean-Pierre Leaud--the troubled lad who grew up in Truffaut's work from The 400 Blows onward. (The Wild Child is dedicated to Leaud.) --Tom Keogh

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  • jessy137
    jessy137
    4.0 Stars
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    December 27, 2007
    Sociologiquement parlant, excellent! Mais si je commence à en parler je ne m'arrêterai pas. Je me contenterai de dire: Allez-vous le baptiser?
  • frankjr19
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    August 25, 2007
    Récit sociologique incroyablement ficelé, L'Enfant sauvage nous offre un des films les plus touchants de la cinématographie de Truffaut en nous exposant l'histoire de Victor, un enfant sauvage relâché dans la nature qui se doit de se soumettre à la socialisation par l'entremise du professeur Itard.

    Ce dernier était d'ailleurs tout simplement splendide, et ça n'a été qu'une satisfaction que d'apprendre que c'était d'ailleurs Truffaut lui-même qui jouait le rôle. Certaines réflexions y sont d'ailleurs tenues si violemment et si puissamment tout à la fois qu'elle coupe parfois court à toutes nos conventions établies.

    Entre autre, lorsqu'Itard décide de mettre à l'épreuve le sens de la justice de Victor...
  • smootysveen
    smootysveen
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    April 21, 2007
    I was disappointed by this film. It's supposed to be one of Truffaut's best works, but it didn't really compare to the Doinel films or any of his early masterpieces. Perhaps, my experience of it was tainted because I watched it on VHS.

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  • Rated: (G)
  • Directed by: François Truffaut
  • Genres: Art House & International, Drama
  • Released: September 11, 1970
  • DVD Released: July 24, 2001

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