{"id":43,"date":"2019-12-28T17:03:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T22:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/?p=43"},"modified":"2019-12-28T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T22:21:08","slug":"the-wild-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/2019\/12\/28\/the-wild-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February 13, 6:30 pm \u2014\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taylor Hall 203 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Wild Boys\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\/ 2017 \/ Bertrand Mandico \/ 110 min<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/vassar.academia.edu\/TheoMantion\">Theo Mantion<\/a> (French, Vassar College)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Respondent:<\/strong> William Dwyer &#8217;20 (Vassar College)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cF488Ap_4Ws?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the boldest aesthetic statements in recent French cinema,\u00a0<em>Wild Boys<\/em> is a gender-bending, influence-scrambling adventure tale\u00a0about five teenage miscreants sent on a boat journey with a mysterious\u00a0Dutch captain who has promised to bring them back to their\u00a0parents as obedient boys\u2014or not at all. What the Captain hasn\u2019t mentioned\u00a0is that his innovative therapy relies on a visit to an island where\u00a0the earth opens up to envelop humans in its warm grasp, where trees\u00a0reach out to kiss or kill you, and where males transform into females.\u00a0Boldly going against the prevailing winds of naturalist cinema, self-described\u00a0queer filmmaker Bertrand Mandico cast five of France\u2019s most\u00a0talented young actresses to play the boys and immersed them in a\u00a0seamless blend of luxuriant island locations and unabashedly artificial\u00a0sets, creating a manifesto for narrative and aesthetic freedom in which\u00a0a slew of influences (Joseph Von Sternberg, R.L. Stevenson, Jean\u00a0Genet, Ra\u00fal Ruiz, Kenneth Anger) add up to a film unlike anything\u00a0we\u2019ve seen before. Shot on gorgeous 35 mm black and white film with\u00a0occasional bursts of dazzling color,\u00a0<em>Wild Boys<\/em> is a potent reminder\u00a0that the radical power of art begins in the formal gesture.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This Tourn\u00e9es Film Festival is made possible with the support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/frenchculture.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cultural Services of the French Embassy<\/a> in the U.S., the Centre National du Cin\u00e9ma et de l\u2019Image Anim\u00e9e (CNC), the French American Cultural Fund, Florence Gould Foundation and Highbrow Entertainment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The festival is cosponsored by the Department of Film, the Women\u2019s Studies Program, the Dean of Faculty and the VSA French Club.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, 2020<br \/>\nScreening: 6.30 pm<br \/>\nTheo Mantion (Vassar)<br \/>\nWilliam Dwyer &#8217;20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184789],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}