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  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 50 m

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 lush is...

Directed By: Bertrand Mandico

Written By: Bertrand Mandico

  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 50 m

The Wild Boys

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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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 lush is...

Directed By: Bertrand Mandico

Written By: Bertrand Mandico

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80
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.
By Patrick Gamble FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Katie Walsh FULL REVIEW
75
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.
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60
Aug 23, 2018
Mandico has made a wildly strange debut, striking enough to make you sit up and pay attention.
By Cath Clarke FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Ecce Films
Release Date Aug 24, 2018
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating TV-MA
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Website https://www.alteredinnocence.net/wildboys
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Awards

International Cinephile Society Awards
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Vilnius International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux (Fifib)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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