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- 2005
- Not Rated
- Wellspring Media
- 1 h 33 m
- 2005
- Not Rated
- Wellspring Media
- 1 h 33 m
Summary A sumptuous film about three people living on the fringe or wild side of society. (Wellspring)
Directed By: Sébastien Lifshitz
Written By: Stéphane Bouquet, Sébastien Lifshitz
- 2005
- Not Rated
- Wellspring Media
- 1 h 33 m
- 2005
- Not Rated
- Wellspring Media
- 1 h 33 m
Wild Side
52
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Summary A sumptuous film about three people living on the fringe or wild side of society. (Wellspring)
Directed By: Sébastien Lifshitz
Written By: Stéphane Bouquet, Sébastien Lifshitz
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
52
30% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
70% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
52
30% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
70% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
This process unfolds in terse, compelling fashion with ravishing camerawork by Agnès Godard.
Viewers are either going to walk out after 10 minutes or, like this tolerant critic, get caught up in the sordid lives of the three misfits and stick around for the ambiguous ending.
Stony and statuesque, Michelini is an excellent casting choice: Her impassive face and dispassionate voice serve as a carefully constructed protective mask that hides her pain, and which she rarely lets slip.
Too elliptical and poetically structured to cohere as more than an intense mood piece with social ramifications. The movie is so enraptured with its own romantic desolation that its narrative drive becomes sidetracked.
Sex frequently disguises itself as friendship and love in Wild Side, a morbid and self-important homosexual "Jules & Jim" for the new millennium.
A sustained mood piece of disquieting intensity, but its almost unbearable air of morose ennui becomes hard to take even in small doses, let alone in a highly concentrated torrent of misery like this.
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Production Company
Maïa Films,
YC Alligator Film,
Zephyr Films,
Arte France Cinéma,
AB3,
Canal+,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
CinéCinéma
Release Date Jun 10, 2005
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating Not Rated
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Gijón International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
L.A. Outfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
