7:00 pm–8:45 pm
This film occurs after museum hours. Please use the Linde Family Wing Entrance on Museum Road.
Directed by Camille Vidal-Naquet (France, 2018, 99 min.). French with English subtitles.
Seething with a feral energy that masks genuine tenderness, Camille Vidal-Naquet’s feature debut took the 2018 Critics Week at Cannes by storm. Anchored by a piercing, peripatetic lead performance by Félix Maritaud, Sauvage makes vivid a gay street hustler’s knife’s-edge existence. Both brutal and brutalized, sweet and savage, Maritaud's prostitute roams from john to john in search of a fix (in the form of sex, drugs, and possibly even love), desperate for both intimacy and freedom, destabilized but ultimately resilient. The intimacies of male bodies both connected and colliding is sensitively captured by cinematographer Jacques Girault, guided by Vidal-Naquet’s assured direction.
Co-presented with Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival.
Still from Wild (2018)
Wheelchair accessible
With English subtitles
Ticket Information
To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975 ($6 processing fee applies); to order in person, visit any MFA ticket desk.
Discounts
Purchase tickets to three or more regularly priced films at once and get $3 off each ticket. Discount automatically applies at checkout. This discount is not applicable on past purchases. All tickets must be purchased at the same time within the same order for discount to apply.
Groups of 10 or more are eligible for discounted tickets for most of our films. For more information, please call 617-369-3310.
University Members and Pozen Community College Access Program student participants can purchase $5 same-day tickets in person for regularly priced screenings. Valid student ID required, limit of one ticket per ID.
Sponsors
Funders of the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Film Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Boston French Film Festival is coordinated by Carter Long, Katharine Stone White Curator of Film and Video, Katherine Irving, and Alexis Weinrich.
Additional support provided by Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Cultural Center.