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2016 · drama · german

Wild

Directed by Nicolette Krebitz1h 37m2016
ElsewhereIMDb6.42kTMDB6.160
  • sombre
  • intense
  • inventive
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Sombre, steady, measured drama / german, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a life without hypocrisy or an obligatory safety net.

Our read · Wild (2016) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · german entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a transgressive German fable about a woman drawn into a wild erotic bond with a wolf.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 15attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnudity

Skip it tonightYou want conventional romance or are disturbed by bestiality and taboo sexuality.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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