No One’s Child
Film Comment Selects 2016
February 17 - 24, 2016
This update of The Wild Child for a grim new era won three prizes at last year’s Venice Film Festival. In late-’80s Yugoslavia, a feral boy running on all fours is brought in from the woods of central Bosnia, unable to walk or talk. Sent to a Belgrade orphanage, he slowly acquires the trappings of civilized behavior. But his fate takes a turn for the worse as the Bosnian war looms.
Vuk Rsumovic’s debut film begins in late-’80s Yugoslavia with the discovery of a feral boy running on all fours in the woods of central Bosnia—abandoned years before to survive or perish, unable to walk or talk. Sent to an orphanage in Belgrade, with the help of a teacher and another boy he slowly acquires the trappings of civilized behavior. But as war breaks out between Serbia and Bosnia, his future suddenly becomes uncertain as he’s assumed to be a Bosnian Muslim. No One’s Child is unabashedly pro the former Yugoslavia—a state that maintained a civil society and took care of its citizens. With its discreet, muscular, no-nonsense style, Rsumovic’s film gives us an update of Truffaut’s The Wild Child for a grim new era. (Olaf Möller, Film Comment, May/June 2014)
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