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] is the debut film of writer/director Camille Vidal-Naquet, a former professor of film studies, and takes as its subject the daily grind of a male prostitute. ...

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 certainly does - apply to a great many people involved, willingly or otherwise, in the sex industry.It is, essentially, a love story - and that makes this all the more poignant and individual. ...