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The Wild Child

starring: Robert Cambourakis, Jean-Pierre Cargol, Tounet Cargol, Jean Dasté, Eric Dolbert

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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792850380
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792850386
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 24, 2001
Running Time: 83 minutes
Sales Rank: 21479
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 11, 1970



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Acclaimed OscarÂ(r)-nominated* director François Truffaut (Small Change, Day for Night) has created an absorbing (Leonard Maltin) film about the true-life tale of a young boy found living alone in the woods of France in the 1700s. Using actual journal entries, Truffaut not only directed and co-wrote the script with Jean Gruault, but also starred as the unflappable Doctor Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, the visionary who takes on the incredible task of civilizing The Wild Child. At The National Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in Paris, a barely clothed and dirty young boy is admitted. Found in a forest, the child is unable to speak, communicate or function in society. Christened Victor by the hospital staff, his case is taken up by Doctor Itard (Truffaut),a lone physician who has an unyielding dedication to re-integrating the lad into society. But the road to tame the beast is a rocky one and Itard will have to work tirelessly to teach Victor how to re-claim his place in the world even if it means staking his reputation on it! *1974: Dayfor Night

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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 experience. 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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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Old, undiscovered, really good movie
This is an old movie black & white but great all the same. The boy who plays the part was perfect, ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - lait et eau
Done in a low-key docu-feature style by a man with child's soul. The untamed warmness of Victor perfectly ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - My Favorite Francois Truffault's Film

Provocative, engaging, and moving, this movie is an absolute wonder - elegant, artful, with breathtaking ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Wild Child
1970, black and white, French with English subtitles. I spent my teen years in Tampa, Florida, which enjoys a fine ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The first signals !
This is an absolutely and concise essay on teaching and eventually giving of love .
A baby is abandoned in the ... Read More

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