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The Wild Child

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The Wild Child
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NR,1hr 25min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1970
Director:
François Truffaut
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut, Jean Dasté  ...more
Synopsis: Based on a real-life case study, recorded in Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard's 1806 volume Memoire et Rapport sur Victor de L'Aveyron, The Wild Child is spiritually in line with François Truffaut's other films about the pains of adolescence. Truffaut himself plays Dr. Jean Itard, a doctor working at Paris' Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. Itard takes on the challenge of Victor (Jean-Pierre Cargol), a nonverbal "wild boy" found abandoned in the woods. Realizing that the Institute's rather cruel methods may ... Full Synopsis
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Tom Wiener, AMG Review
Often overlooked in the François Truffaut canon, L'Enfant Sauvage is clearly the work of the man who made The 400 Blows and Small Change. Like both those masterpieces, it is sensitively attuned to the rhythms of childhood, but it is also a more austere and almost formal work. Casting himself as Dr. Itard, the bachelor physician who takes in an abandoned boy and tries to civilize him, Truffaut the actor ... Full Review
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Jean-Pierre Cargol
Victor
François Truffaut
Itard
Jean Dasté
Prof. Philippe Pinel
Françoise Seigner
Guerin
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