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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. He wrote it, directed it, and plays the doctor himself. It is an understated, compassionate performance, a perfect counterpoint to Jean-Pierre Cargol's ferocity and fear... 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."
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it." He later said that "the decision to play Dr. Itard myself is a more complex choice than I believed at the time ... this was the first time I identified myself with the adult, the father, to the extent that at the end of the editing, I dedicated the film to Jean-Pierre LĂ©aud because this passage,
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place himself alongside the oppressor, even one as sympathetic as Itard?" and adding "the astonishing thing is that
Truffaut the filmmaker is better than Truffaut the man, and that we can accept the interest and beauty of this film at the same time that we're violently opposed to its content." In the
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in southern France. A woman sees him, then runs off screaming. She finds some hunters and tells them that she saw a wild boy. They hunt him down with a pack of dogs who chase him up a tree and attack him when he falls. He fights them off leaving one dog wounded, then continues to flee and hides in a
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gave the film a positive review and discussed the film's theme as one of
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also praised the drama, and wrote: "This is a lucid, penetrating detailing of a young doctor's attempt to civilize a retarded boy found living in the woods in
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camera and stated that he would become "the first gypsy director", however Cargol only appeared as an actor in one more film. Truffaut later said that during the making of the film he "saw that the cinema helped his evolution. In my opinion, the difference between Jean-Pierre Cargol
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1814:World Film Directors, Volume 2
1705:"The Wild Child [DVD]"
752:liked the acting, and wrote: "
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2094:The Woman Next Door
1998:Mississippi Mermaid
1732:. New York: Knopf.
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1587:Rosenbaum, Jonathan
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1627:on 9 February 2009
1541:The New York Times
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851:Best Foreign Film
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