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
