The Wild Child (L‘enfant Sauvage)
a film by françois
truffaut
starring
Jean-Pierre Cargol
françois truffaut
photographed by
Nestor Almendros
script, adaptation and dialogues by
François Truffaut and Jean
Gruault
also starring
Jean Dasté and Françoise
Seigner
a production of
LES FILMS DU CARROSSE and LES PRODUCTIONS
ARTISTES ASSOCIéS
“Unlike any other film Truffaut has
ever made, yet only Truffaut could have made it. It is a
lovely, pure film. A CLASSIC!”
– Vincent Canby, The New York Times
“Truffaut’s most thoughtful
statement on his favorite subject: The way young people grow
up, explore themselves, and attempt to function creatively in
the world. Truffaut places his personal touch on every frame of
the film. So often movies keep our attention by flashy tricks
and cheap melodrama; it is an intellectually cleansing
experience to watch this intelligent and hopeful
film.”
– Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times
“Suffused with Truffaut’s
radiant love for the movies’ beginnings, when everything
was being done for the first time, when the language was
learned. It has a miraculous kind of balance: between freedom
and control, originality and homage, the discovery of new
experience and the contemplation of the past…Truffaut
gives us an image of himself as both master and student, the
image that contains all we need to know of him.”
– Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker
links:
Village Voice, 11.04.08
TIME OUT New York,
Vincent Canby review
New York Times
Roger Ebert review
Chicago Sun Times
Dr. Itard's full report: AN HISTORICAL
ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY AND EDUCATION OF A SAVAGE MAN (1802)
Hitchcock to Truffaut correspondence
Original theatrical trailer
