The Wild Boys (film)

The Wild Boys
The Wild Boys
Directed by	Bertrand Mandico
Screenplay by	Bertrand Mandico
Produced by	Emmanuel Chaumet; Mathilde Delaunay;
Starring	Vimala Pons; Diane Rouxel; Anaël Snoek; Mathilde Warnier; Pauline Lorillard; Sam Louwyck; Elina Löwensohn;
Cinematography	Pascale Granel
Edited by	Laure Saint-Marc
Music by	Pierre Desprats
Production; company	Ecce Films
Distributed by	UFO Distribution; (France); Altered Innocence; (United States); Bildstörung; (Germany);
Release dates	4 September 2017 (Venice); 28 February 2018 (France);
Running time	110 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Wild Boys (French: les garçons sauvages) is a 2017 French film directed by Bertrand Mandico. Set in the beginning of the 20th century on the island of La Réunion, it is about five adolescent boys from wealthy families who commit a brutal crime and are in turn taken in by a Dutch Captain for rehabilitation on his dilapidated sailboat, who sail for a tropical island on which they will secretly be changed into women.^[1]^[2]^[3] Notably, all the five male protagonists in the film were played by female actors.

^ Grant Watson (4 March 2019). "REVIEW: The Wild Boys (2017)". Fiction Machine. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
^ Brady, Lois (2018-07-16). "Damn These Heels: The Wild Boys (Les garçons sauvages)". SLUG Magazine. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
^ "Bertrand Mandico Blurs Sex And Fantasy In His Gender-Bending Debut 'The Wild Boys (Les Garçons Sauvages)'". www.intomore.com. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 2019-05-18.

[1] Grant Watson (4 March 2019). "REVIEW: The Wild Boys (2017)". Fiction Machine. Retrieved 18 May 2019.

[2] Brady, Lois (2018-07-16). "Damn These Heels: The Wild Boys (Les garçons sauvages)". SLUG Magazine. Retrieved 2019-05-18.

[3] "Bertrand Mandico Blurs Sex And Fantasy In His Gender-Bending Debut 'The Wild Boys (Les Garçons Sauvages)'". www.intomore.com. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 2019-05-18.

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