Sauvage review – on the street with a homeless hustler

Camille Vidal-Naquet kicks off a candid account of the savage realities facing a young sex worker with a startling twist

Feature first-timer Camille Vidal-Naquet creates a tough, intriguing if incurious study of a young homeless hustler, starring Félix Maritaud (who was Max in Robin Campillo’s Act Up drama 120 Beats per Minute). He plays Leo, who makes an impact in the opening scene in a doctor’s office, as this beautiful young man talks about his cough and takes his clothes off, to reveal various marks and lesions that he is carefully asked about. The scene ends with a startling twist, establishing a note of irony that is ingenious but slightly out of kilter with the succeeding action.

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