Film
The Wild Boys
- Director
- Bertrand Mandico
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 110 mins
“At the beginning of the 20th century, on the island of La Réunion, five adolescents of good families enamoured with the occult, commit a savage crime. A Dutch Captain takes them in charge for a repressive cruise on a haunted, dilapidated sailboat. Exhausted by the Captain’s methods, the five boys prepare to mutiny. Their port of call is a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers that holds a disturbing secret.”
That’s the official synopsis of the first feature by French experimental filmmaker Bertrand Mandico, but it hardly prepares you for this stylised genre- and gender-bending erotic fantasia, which has been compared to the work of Guy Maddin and Walerian Borowczyk.
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