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Wild Reeds
from Fox Lorber
starring Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny, Michèle Moretti
directed by André Téchiné

Features:

• Color
• NTSC

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• 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... more info

• 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... more info

• 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.

• 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... more info

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