THE WILD BOYS
\nLES GAR\u00c7ONS SAUVAGES
\n\u201cIt\u2019s as if Guy Maddin and Kenneth Anger adapted one of Joseph Conrad\u2019s nightmares for a sexploitation producer,\u201d said New York Times about this weird and wonderful debut feature by Bertrand Mandico that casts female actors in the roles of violent teenage boys (including Diane Rouxel who plays the lead in Raising Colours, also in this year\u2019s Festival).<\/p>\n
It is the beginning of the 20th century on the island of R\u00e9union. A group of boys from well-to-do backgrounds commit a savage crime, which sees them put under the charge of a sadistic Dutch captain who takes them on a tyrannical voyage on his haunted sailboat. When the boat docks, it\u2019s on a supernatural island where exotic and erotic vegetation transforms them and their reality.<\/p>\n
Named after a book by William Burroughs, The Wild Boys is a heady “m\u00e9lange” of Mandico\u2019s influences \u2013 Jules Verne, Jean Cocteau, John Carpenter\u2019s The Fog, Mario Bava, Fassbinder\u2019s Querelle, Jean Genet and H.G Wells. Hyper-artificiality, rear projections, fake sets, prosthetic genitalia and bursts of shimmering colour through black & white are just some of the visual and visceral elements that meld together to create a special-effects-laden cinematic experience.<\/p>\n
French Film Festival<\/a> THE WILD BOYS LES GAR\u00c7ONS SAUVAGES \u201cIt\u2019s as if Guy Maddin and Kenneth Anger adapted one of Joseph Conrad\u2019s nightmares for a sexploitation producer,\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[902,585,901,624,574],"class_list":["post-6232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-review","tag-adelaide","tag-australia","tag-french-film-festival","tag-les-garcons-sauvages","tag-queer-lion-2017","post-item","post-even"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
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