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"The Wild Child"
(L'Enfant Sauvage)
1970
Directed by Francois Truffaut

The Wild Child is based on a remarkable journal, the 1806 memoirs of a French physician, a certain Jean Itard. The record begins in 1798, when a child is found living in the forest like an animal. Dr. Itard sets for himself the task of educating this child who is totally alien to civilization. Shot in austere black and white, the film achieves a depth of vision treating anew love, freedom, the nature of childhood and childhood's end. French with English subtitles.  85 minutes.