Sauvage

**_Powerful filmmaking, although the graphic sex scenes and passive protagonist won't be for everyone_** > _Léo has no moral judgement: he is just there. That's his life. He doesn't even know what "get out of it" means; get out of what, to go where?_ - Camille Vidal-Naquet; _Sauvage_ Production Notes _Sauvage_ [trans. _Wild_, although a lot of reviewers are incorrectly calling it _Savage_…

Félix Maritaud is outstanding in this depiction of the seedy and sordid life of a young Parisian prostitute in love (sadly, unrequited) with another prostitute. The grim and risky extent of their existence is captured superbly by Camille Vidal-Naquet. It is a story about gay men, but need not necessarily be considered solely in a specifically gay context; this narrative could - and almost certainl…