1970 · drama
The Wild Child
Directed by François Truffaut1h 23m1970
The true story of Victor of Aveyron. In a French forest circa 1798, an abandoned child — feral, filthy and mentally impaired — is found. Dr Jean Marc Gaspard Itard becomes interested in the case and patiently attempts to civilise the boy.
Our read: The Wild Child (1970) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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