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- 2019
- Not Rated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 39 m
- 2019
- Not Rated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 39 m
Summary Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here... longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding.
Directed By: Camille Vidal-Naquet
Written By: Camille Vidal-Naquet
- 2019
- Not Rated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 39 m
- 2019
- Not Rated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 39 m
Sauvage / Wild
75
8.0
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Summary Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here... longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding.
Directed By: Camille Vidal-Naquet
Written By: Camille Vidal-Naquet
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
75
81% Positive
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19% Mixed
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0% Negative
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By the end, we’ve experienced one of the best films about street hustling ever made.
Vidal-Naquet’s film knows that every wound and balm to the flesh is also one to the spirit.
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Based on 12 User Ratings
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Generally Favorable
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There are fleeting moments of wit, bliss and even tenderness amid the gritty severity, as Vidal-Naquet perceptively portrays not just the lonely, drug-fueled rigors of the hustler lifestyle, but the simultaneously competitive and supportive fraternal community that sustains it.
The actual filmmaking, and the excellent acting, do a good job of camouflaging the way Vidal-Naquet ultimately romanticizes Léo.
From its title on down, Sauvage / Wild is a film that’s torn between different translations of the same basic principle — one soft and the other hard. There’s no judgement of him whatsoever, to the point where it sometimes feels like the character is more of a construct than he is a fully dimension person of flesh and blood.
What is interesting about Sauvage is that it shows how savagely boring Leo’s life is, quite a lot of the time.
It’s tough to build a character study around an unconvincing character.
Production Company
Les Films de la Croisade,
La Voie Lactée,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Région Grand Est,
Eurométropole de Strasbourg
Release Date Apr 10, 2019
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Mezipatra Queer Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
