Sauvage (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sauvage |
| Original title | Sauvage |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Camille Vidal-Naquet |
| script | Camille Vidal-Naquet |
| production |
Emmanuel Giraud , Marie Sonne-Jensen |
| music | Romain Trouillet |
| camera | Jacques Girault |
| cut | Elif Uluengin |
| occupation | |
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Sauvage (French for "wild") is a film drama by Camille Vidal-Naquet , which premiered in May 2018 as part of the Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival .
action
The 22-year-old Léo lives on the street, smokes way too much crack and earns his living as a prostitute. He steals his food or fishes it from garbage cans, and he sleeps in the woods, in parks or simply on the street. Mostly he spends his day on the street in Strasbourg, where he is called Draga. The young gay man falls a little in love with Ahd, a masculine prostitute. Léo doesn't mind kissing his suitors too. Ahd, on the other hand, is very straight. When Léo goes to bed with other boys from the street prostitute after a party with Ahd, Ahd allows his new protégé to cuddle up to him, even if he pretends not to be gay.
When Léo goes to a club with him, Ahd disappears with his old and new patrons. Léo speaks to a much older man and falls asleep with him in his marriage bed. But not all encounters with suitors go so well. When two young men try to insert a huge butt plug into him during a sex date, but they don't succeed, they don't want to pay him. Léo asks for help from Ahd, who once again uses brutal force to get his money. Still, Léo doesn't seem to care much about life as a prostitute and with drugs. When Léo visits the doctor, he doesn't understand why the doctor wants to show him a way to get off drugs. She diagnosed him with tuberculosis. Therefore, even with the slightest exertion, Léo is breathless and therefore also his lungs pain and his increasingly violent cough.
A young man appears on the street whom Ahd had knocked down with a bottle a few days earlier because he allegedly screwed up prices. However, Léo had taken care of the injured afterwards. Unlike Ahd, like Léo himself, the young man is gay. Now they go dancing together and share a suitor they rob.
On a railway bridge, Léo is approached by a man who introduces himself as Claude and whom he has seen there several times. He's taking it home. When Léo has a coughing fit while fucking and spits blood, Claude is very worried and offers him a life with him, but Léo calls him old and ugly and leaves the apartment. He just wants to see Ahd again and confess his love to him. However, he has made himself comfortable with his patron, says Léo he deserves to be loved and recommends that he find an old man and disappear from his life. After a night in which his lungs ached particularly badly, he stumbled on the street and got into the jaguar of the pianist that Ahd had always warned him about. In the evening Claude finds him covered in blood and with cuts all over his body on the railway bridge.
Some time later, Léo is sitting at the doctor's house freshly coiffed and dressed. He no longer takes drugs and now lives with Claude, who takes good care of him. The doctor, who is friends with Claude, worries less about Léo than about Claude, who is a really good guy and has visibly blossomed since his relationship with the young prostitute. When he and Claude want to fly to Canada, where he actually lives, Léo flees the airport, runs into a forest, lies down on the ground and falls asleep.
production
Directed by Camille Vidal-Naquet , who also wrote the script. He researched sex workers in Paris for three years for his film.
The film premiered in May 2018 as part of the Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival . It was released in German cinemas on November 29, 2018. A theatrical release in the USA took place on April 10, 2019.
reception
Age rating
In Germany, the film was approved for people aged 16 and over . The statement of reasons for the release states: “The story is told sensitively, but also deals with topics such as violence, sexual assault and drug consumption, sometimes in very drastic images. Individual sexual representations are explicitly illustrated and do not appear to be an end in themselves because they are coherently embedded in the story. Young people aged 16 and over are able to place these scenes in the context of the story and to process them appropriately. In particular, humiliation and violence are not equated with homosexuality per se, but are linked to the milieu of street prostitution. Viewers from the age of 16 can recognize this differentiation, especially since there are also tender and sensitive moments between the men. "
Reviews
The film has so far received the approval of 91 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and achieved an average rating of 7.7 out of a possible 10 points.
Knut Elstermann from MDR Kultur explains that the film in no way glosses over the brutality of prostitution, but shows with Léo a person who feels a longing for warmth and security that he cannot find in his suitors. Leading actor Félix Maritaud played his way to the top with his intense, unreserved performance, Elstermann continues: “He is now very rightly one of the shooting stars of French cinema - touching in his vulnerability, but never sentimental, with a natural, uninhibited physicality in which the harshness of the business has relentlessly inscribed. "
Christina Bylow also writes in the Berliner Zeitung that this stringently structured story of an unhappy love for Maritaud is carried by an actor who is so talented that one has to fear for him: "Maritaud has the face of an abused angel, tortured and invulnerable, innocent and hardened, lost and blessed. He doesn't know why he should do anything other than what he is doing. [...] Even in French cinema there are rarely such characters. "
Nadine Lange writes in the Tagesspiegel that Sauvage is in the tradition of French hustlers like Patrice Chéreaus The seduced man from 1983 or André Téchinés I don't kiss from 1991. However , according to Lange , Camille Vidal-Naquet's work is more reminiscent of the closely observed social dramas of the Belgian Dardenne brothers . As with them, Jacques Girault's handheld camera is always close to the main character, which leads to great intimacy and corporeality, but never appears voyeuristic: “Léos' skin, decorated with many tattoos, his increasingly greasy hair, his often shy eyes are soon as familiar as a friend's. It is therefore also painful to watch the young man's situation deteriorate continuously in the few weeks of summer that Sauvage encompasses. "
Sascha Westphal from epd Film thinks that tenderness is by no means at odds with the wild side of Léo's existence, which Vidal-Naquet's debut feature film owes its title to. The life of a young prostitute who prefers the street to an orderly existence ultimately knows no contradictions, but surrenders entirely to the moment, Westphal continues. The film is not a social drama that shows the hardships of the life of male hustlers to an inclined audience, even if the often documentary style of Jacques Girault's manual camera work, which aims at the greatest possible authenticity, suggests this.
Awards (selection)
- Nomination for Best First Feature
Chicago International Film Festival 2018
- Nomination for the Gold Q-Hugo
Cannes International Film Festival 2018
- Awarded the Prix Fondation Louis Roederer de la Révélation ( Félix Maritaud )
- Nomination for the Critics' Prize in the Semaine internationale de la critique ( Camille Vidal-Naquet )
- Nomination for the Caméra d'Or (Camille Vidal-Naquet)
- Nomination for the Queer Palm (Camille Vidal-Naquet)
Jerusalem Film Festival
- Awarded the FIPRESCI Prize - International First Film (Camille Vidal-Naquet)
Prix Lumières 2019
- Nomination for Best First Feature (Camille Vidal-Naquet)
- Award for Best Young Actor (Félix Maritaud)
Web links
- Sauvage in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.spio-fsk.de/asp/fskkarte.asp?pvid=589689
- ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/queerspiegel/filmdrama-sauvage-sie-kuessen-und-sie-haben-ihn-alltag-eines-schwulen-sexarbeiters/23692912.html
- ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
- ^ Reason for release for Sauvage In: Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry. Retrieved November 30, 2018.
- ↑ Sauvage In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 26, 2019. Note: The Tomatometer is the percentage of Rotten Tomatoes Approved Critics who gave the film a positive rating.
- ↑ https://www.mdr.de/kultur/empfänger/sauvage-filmkritik-elstermann-100.html
- ↑ https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur/film/film--sauvage--leiden-an-der-unerfuellten-liebe-31655726
- ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/queerspiegel/filmdrama-sauvage-sie-kuessen-und-sie-haben-ihn/23692912.html
- ↑ https://www.epd-film.de/filmkritiken/sauvage
- ^ Rhonda Richford: France's Cesar Awards Nominations Unveiled. In: The Hollywood Reporter, January 23, 2019.
- ↑ thesis LGBTQ + -themed films addressing sexuality and identity compete for the Hugo Award Q .. In: chicagofilmfestival.com. Retrieved November 30, 2018.
- ↑ 24e cérémonie des Lumières de la presse internationale: Les nominations. In: academiedeslumieres.com. Retrieved January 18, 2019 (PDF)
- ↑ Rhonda Richford: Lumiere Awards: Jacques Audiard's 'Sisters Brothers' Takes Top Prize. In: The Hollywood Reporter, February 4, 2019.