The Wild Child

Name: The Wild Child
Genre: Drama
Released: September 11, 1970
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 94
Cast: Annie Miller, Claude Miller, François Truffaut, Françoise Seigner, Jean Dasté

1970

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Les Artistes Associés | Release Date: September 11, 1970 | G

Starring: Annie Miller, Claude Miller, François Truffaut, Françoise Seigner, Jean Dasté, Jean Gruault, Jean-Pierre Cargol, Mathieu Schiffman, Nathan Miller, Paul Villé

Summary: In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.

Director: François Truffaut

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: G

Runtime: 83 min

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Roger Ebert

So often movies keep our attention by flashy tricks and cheap melodrama; it is an intellectually cleansing experience to watch this intelligent and hopeful film. Read full review

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Unlike the acting-histrionics competition in Hollywood’s The Miracle Worker (1962), Truffaut never upstages the astounding Cargol; both performers underplay in perfect harmony, turning the story into a duet of paternal affection and paradise lost. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Probably the director's most ambitious film, The Wild Child spins a modern myth with resonances for parents and children, teachers and students, and even filmmakers, actors and audiences. Read full review

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It progresses slowly but absorbingly. Truffaut underplays but exudes an interior tenderness and dedication. The boy is amazingly and intuitively well played by a tousled gypsy tyke named Jean-Pierre Cargol. Everybody connected with this unusual, off-beat film made in black-and-white rates kudos. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

It's as lucid and wryly witty a film as you could wish for, uncluttered by superfluous period detail. A beautiful use of simple techniques - black-and-white photography, Vivaldi music, even devices as outmoded as the iris - give it a very refreshing quality. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Unlike any other film Truffaut has ever made, yet only Truffaut could have made it. It is a lovely, pure film. And it may be a classic. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

A typical older male mentore story...told with sensitivity and perceptiveness. Read full review

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