The Wild Boys

Name: The Wild Boys
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Fantasy
Released: August 24, 2018
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Anaël Snoek, Christophe Bier, Diane Rouxel, Elina Löwensohn, Margaux Fabre

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| Release Date: August 24, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Anaël Snoek, Christophe Bier, Diane Rouxel, Elina Löwensohn, Margaux Fabre, Mathilde Warnier, Nathalie Richard, Pauline Lorillard, Sam Louwyck, Vimala Pons

Summary: Five adolescent boys (all played by actresses) are in love with the arts, but drawn to crime and transgression. After a brutal crime committed by the group and aided by Trevor – a deity of chaos they can’t control – they’re sentenced to board a boat with a captain hell-bent on taming their ferocious appetites. After arriving on a lushFive adolescent boys (all played by actresses) are in love with the arts, but drawn to crime and transgression. After a brutal crime committed by the group and aided by Trevor – a deity of chaos they can’t control – they’re sentenced to board a boat with a captain hell-bent on taming their ferocious appetites. After arriving on a lush island where dangers and pleasures abound the boys start to transform in both mind and body. … Expand

Director: Bertrand Mandico

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Fantasy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 110 min

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Katie Walsh

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. Read full review

Patrick Gamble

Aug 23, 2018

A conspicuous example of political cinema made into art, The Wild Boys has more ideas in its 110 minute runtime than most filmmakers have in their entire oeuvres; jumping gleefully into the murky waters of gender politics and taking great delight in the overflowing bounty of cinephilic pleasures and vulgar perversities that spurt onto the screen. Read full review

The Film Stage Ryan Swen

Aug 24, 2018

This is one of the more truly strange visions from narrative cinema in the past few years, one that dares and succeeds as much as it fails. To call it bizarre would be an understatement. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Aug 23, 2018

Mandico has made a wildly strange debut, striking enough to make you sit up and pay attention. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

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. Read full review

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