The Wild Child (1970)
Directed by François Truffaut
The true story of Victor of Aveyron. In a French forest circa 1798, an abandoned child — feral, filthy and mentally impaired — is found. Dr Jean Marc Gaspard Itard becomes interested in the case and patiently attempts to civilise the boy.
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What critics compared The Wild Child to
The pitch-perfect emotional interplay between Hanks and Zengel, the seasoned veteran and the promising newcomer who bring out the best in each other, recalls the fascinating give-and-take between director-star Francois Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Cargol in Truffaut’s The Wild Child (1970), a not-dissimilar story about a learned man’s efforts to bestow the profoundly mixed blessings of civilization on a youngster who, all things considered, might be better off unbound by those constraints.
The concept of a lead character who was raised in nature and isolated from the rest of humanity aligns Hanna with classic films like François Truffaut’s The Wild Child or Werner Herzog’s The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser, but Wright and his screenwriters, Seth Lochhead and David Farr, don’t study their heroine’s cultural miscues all that closely.
One irresistible parallel is not to Mr. del Toro's work but to François Truffaut's transcendently beautiful "The Wild Child," in which Truffaut himself played Dr. Itard, the physician who undertook to civilize a feral boy discovered in the forests of 18th-century France.
Companion viewing: "Devil's Backbone," "The Orphanage," "Sinister," "The Wild Child"…
The outsider�s "terribly hard fall" into civilization, imagined by Werner Herzog as a rough-ethereal Kokoschka canvas far from the Chardin of The Wild Child.
The film is often linked with Truffaut's " The Wild Child " (1970), set in the same century, about a boy who emerged from the forest possibly having been raised by animals.