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Wild Child [DVD] [1970] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
 
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Wild Child [DVD] [1970] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ François Truffaut
4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol, Françoise Seigner, Jean Dasté, Annie Miller
  • Directors: François Truffaut
  • Writers: François Truffaut, Jean Gruault, Jean Itard
  • Producers: Marcel Berbert
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language English, French
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: MGM
  • DVD Release Date: 24 Jul 2001
  • Run Time: 83 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005BKZR
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 112,707 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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An ingenious and poignant experience, Francois Truffaut's fascinating The Wild Child is based on a real-life 18th-century behavioural scientist's efforts to turn a feral boy into a civilised specimen. In a piece of resonant casting that immediately turns this story into an echo of the creative process, Truffaut himself plays Dr Itard, a specialist in the teaching of the deaf. Itard takes in a young lad (Jean-Pierre Cargol) found to have been living like an animal in the woods all his life. In the spirit of social experiment, Itard uses rewards and punishments to retool the boy's very existence into something that will impress the world. Beautifully photographed in black and white and making evocative use of such charmingly antiquated filmmaking methods as the iris shot, The Wild Child has a semi-documentary form that barely veils Truffaut's confessional slant.

What does it mean to turn the raw material of life into a monument to one's own experience and bias? The question has all sorts of intriguing reverberations when one considers that Truffaut's own wild childhood was rescued by love of the cinema and that a degree of verisimilitude factors into his films starring Jean-Pierre Leaud--the troubled lad who grew up in Truffaut's work from The 400 Blows onward. (The Wild Child is dedicated to Leaud.) --Tom Keogh

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating tale only partly told, 20 Sep 2005
This review is from: The Wild Child [DVD] [1970] (DVD)
It wasn't until I read the credits carefully that I realised the source of my "I've seen him before" reaction to the man playing Itard. Francois Truffaut! He also wrote and directed this version of (part) of the story of a teacher of the deaf who takes on the training of a 12 year old boy without language found running wild in the French forest shortly after the French revolution.

In many ways this is a masterful and detailed account, based on Itard's own account, of his attempts to "civilise" 'Victor', at a time when debate raged, as it does still, about 'nature v nurture'. But it stops well before Victor's life played out to the age of 40, as a long-term inmate of an institution (he was almost certainly severely autistic - probably the reason he was abandoned - and thus his potential was always going to be limited), still devotedly cared for by Mme Guerin, who had been employed by Itard as housekeeper.

Itard gave up his quest to prove that the right (and it was extraordinarily well-thought-out, using many techniques still used today) education could do anything, after six years with Victor yielded only patchy results.

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5.0 out of 5 stars L'Enfant Sauvage, 19 Oct 2005
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Skill of Truffaut is to persuade you that artifice is documentary. As much as one admire's the film-making intelligence, one is moved by the story. Movie storytelling at its most skillful and poignant.
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