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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304161494 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6304161492 Label: Fox Lorber Manufacturer: Fox Lorber Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Fox Lorber Release Date: November 11, 1997 Running Time: 110 minutes Sales Rank: 17604 Studio: Fox Lorber Theatrical Release Date: May 10, 1995
Amazon.com: This resonant, engrossing 1994 film by André Téchiné (Thieves) is an unusual coming-of-age story set at a French boarding school in 1962, when news of France's war in Algeria is still plentiful. Téchiné focuses on a handful of students, measuring their transition into adulthood against the reality of love, sex, and the war's controversial cost. Strikingly sensitive and sophisticated, beautifully dramatized, and perfectly acted by a young cast, the film feels like one of those universal touchstones for the final days of childhood grace. Téchiné's typically blunt-but-gentle manner is perfectly suited for this tale of youthful gains and losses. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - Téchiné's Wild Reeds is a quintessential French film.
André Téchiné's name is synonymous with great French films. He is best known for My Favorite Season (1993) and Wild Reeds (1994), both of which are included in the recent release of the Andre Techine Boxset. Set in a boarding school in the Southwest of France in 1962, Wild Reeds (Les Roseaux sauvages) tells the story of a ménage à trois between four French youths during the political turmoil of the Algerian War. François (Gaël Morel) and Maïté (Élodie Bouchez) are close friends who share a love for French cinema. Maïté is interested in becoming François' lover, but François is more ... Read More
Rating: - Exquisite
"WILD REEDS"
Exquisite
Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride
Probably more than any other film, "Wild Reeds" (Fox Lorber) tells the story of young gay love and it is probably the most popular movie that people still watch today...and rightfully so. Set in 1962 in the southwest of France, Maite and Francois are eighteen years old and they are simply friends. There is also Serge, a classmate, whose brother has just married to escape the draft and Henri, an Algerian. What happens will be discussed in a bit.
"Wild Reeds" is a wonderful drama which gives an insightful ... Read More
Rating: - Good Film, but not outstanding.
First of all I HATE SUBTITLES. Some movies are just worth it. This one was ok, subtitles didn't ruin it, but it would have been much better in English. This is a charming coming of age film, but nothing in it just really reaches out and grabs me. It's a fun movie to watch but don't expect anything new that you haven't seen in a dozen other coming of age films. Very good casting, and the acting was very good as well. These young faces are pleasant to look at and their characters are portrayed in a very believable, touching way. The scenery is very nice and I didn't notice anything unappealing about video or ... Read More
Rating: - Great Film-shoddy transfer
This is a modern classic of French Cinema. The transfer is beyond shoddy. I could not believe my eyes. What a shame. Not the
first time Fox has botched it.
Rating: - It goes where "Jules and Jim" didn't dare
One girl and three guys--it does J&J one better. I always wondered why Jules and Jim bothered with "the girl" at all when they were obviously one another's true soul mates. Although WILD REEDS is not a gay film, it does have one gay character who has a couple of classmates who seem to be either bisexual or open to experimentation. The four adolescent leads in this movie are struggling with their sense of being an outsider, which seems to be a universal for boys and girls, straights and gays alike. At the same time that they are trying to come to terms with their sexual natures, they are developing a sense of ... Read More
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