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No-frills, pared-to-the-bone film by Francois Truffaut concerning the honest record of a “savage” pubescent who was captured in a forest in France, living like a beast. The epic takes situation at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, but, rather curiously, Truffaut makes no political commentary about post-Terror France. All in all, this is a rather trustworthy understanding, one to be emulated by other period-piece makers who clog their movies with “historical figures”, celebrated events, or other data that don’t have great to do with whatever record they’re telling. Here, Truffaut sticks strictly to the point. (A miracle, considering this director’s track-record!) Scarcely deviating from the source-material — a journal by the doctor who took responsibility for the child, domesticated him, and attempted to jabber him up into a worthy exiguous Frenchman — the director lets the chronicle itself do all the work. The documentary-feel to the the movie brings many absorbing themes, one by one, to the surface. Not the least of which is the relativism of “happiness”. Bored of the endless lessons (“match this shape with this object”, etc.), the boy runs off only to search for the forest has been infamous for him forever by the doting doctor and his maid, by the delightful food, by the comfortable sleeping quarters, by the glasses of water and milk, and so on. He returns home willingly, but his face, upon hearing the doctor say, “Tomorrow, we resume our lessons,” says it all. (This movie makes a thematic companion-piece to Nicolas Roeg’s pessimistic *Walkabout*.) Also of sign is that Truffaut reverts to dusky & white in this film (it was made in 1970), perhaps because he was concerned that the soft, aesthetic colors of the French countryside would help sentimentality. Indeed: the rather grim B&W photography, the clinical advance to the material, the serious implications underlying the sage, and even his fill wooden performance as the doctor, all combine to shoo away happy-ending seekers.
There may be another Francois Truffaut film about a boy coping with traumatic surroundings – 1959′s “The 400 Blows” – which is far better known (and arguably his greatest), but an equally personal, affecting work is the film made 10 years later, “The Wild Child”. Based on a moral case of the leisurely 1700′s, it examines a doctor’s attempts to educate a 10 year old-fashioned quiet boy found living among the elements in a French forest. Having been abandoned by his parents since infancy, the child must learn to adapt to civilized society and, through his efforts, forms a bond with the caring doctor. The film’s fittingly stale tone is actualized by the grainy sunless and white photography. Truffaut (in one of his few starring film roles) is natural as the resolute doctor; his earnest curiosity is captivating. Jean-Pierre Cargol, in the titular fraction, is particularly impressive; In what superficially appears to be a simple role (maladroit, non-human movements, dialogue basically small to high-pitched grunts), his unmannered presence imbues the film with a near-documentarian authenticity. Another gratifying personal film from a leading director of the French Modern Wave.
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