Wild Reeds

Name: Wild Reeds
Genre: Drama
Released: May 10, 1995
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 83
Cast: Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau

1995

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: May 10, 1995 | Not Rated

Starring: Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau

Summary: At a boarding school in the south of France in 1962, Maite, Francois, Serge and Henri explore friendship, sexuality and love at the end of the Algerian War.

Director: André Téchiné

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 110 min

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David Ansen

Every character--not just the kids, but the teachers as well--comes alive with a complexity worthy of Jean Renoir. The lyricism of Wild Reeds doesn't cast a smoke screen of nostalgia, it brings us closer to the experience of adolescence. Read full review

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Emanuel Levy

As always, Techine is excellent at exploring “tiny” personal flashes that assume larger meaning when placed against the broader historical context. Read full review

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Jay Carr

Wild Reeds is not only Andre Techine's best film in a decade, it's one of France's, too. [22 Sep 1995, p.57]

Carrie Rickey

Andre Techine creates living characters instead of sociopolitical symbols. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Moving and sensitively written, it's a needed reminder that what's personal is always political -- and vice-versa. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Some of the political undertones may go astray, but the emotional center of the film is touching and honest. Read full review

Empire Rob Driscoll

While it's all very pleasant watching these undecided pubescents frolic in the lake in their undies, there's a distinct lack of real drama or purpose in the self-indulgent, humourless proceedings. Read full review

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lasttimeisaw

Oct 2, 2014

WILD REEDS is my introductory piece to André Téchiné's cinematic dominion, its title refers to famous fable THE OAK AND THE REED, and it is an adolescent quartet in 1962 France, against the backdrop of the twilight of Algerian War and the demise of French colonisation.

Everyone thinksWILD REEDS is my introductory piece to André Téchiné's cinematic dominion, its title refers to famous fable THE OAK AND THE REED, and it is an adolescent quartet in 1962 France, against the backdrop of the twilight of Algerian War and the demise of French colonisation.

Everyone thinks 18-year-old high-schoolers Françoise (Morel) and Maïté (Bouchez) are an item, even Maïté, who is deeply influenced by her mother Madame Alvarez's (Moretti) communist slant, thinks so, they are so compatible and intimate together, although so far the relationship has been purely platonic, it is only a matter of time before it turns physical.

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