Sauvage/Wild

Camille Vidal-Naquet
Part of

New Directors/New Films 2019

March 27 - April 7, 2019

Seething with a feral energy that masks genuine tenderness, Sauvage makes vivid a gay street hustler’s knife’s-edge existence, roaming from john to john in search of a fix—in the form of sex, drugs, and possibly even love.

DIRECTOR
Camille Vidal-Naquet
YEAR
2018
COUNTRY
France
RUNTIME
99 minutes
LANGUAGE
French with English subtitles

Q&As with Camille Vidal-Naquet on April 5 & 7

Seething with a feral energy that masks genuine tenderness, Camille Vidal-Naquet’s feature debut took the 2018 Critics Week at Cannes by storm. Anchored by a piercing, peripatetic lead performance by Félix Maritaud, Sauvage makes vivid a gay street hustler’s knife’s-edge existence. Both brutal and brutalized, sweet and savage, Maritaud’s prostitute roams from john to john in search of a fix (in the form of sex, drugs, and possibly even love), desperate for both intimacy and freedom, destabilized but ultimately resilient. The intimacies of male bodies both connected and colliding is sensitively captured by cinematographer Jacques Girault, guided by Vidal-Naquet’s assured direction. A Strand Releasing release.

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