My Rating : 7/10
The film is based in 1828 Nuremberg, Germany and is about a German youth who claims to have grown up in total isolation of a darkened cell. His tale is so full of absurdities that it is astonishing that it was ever believed and is even today still believed by many people.
Good film let down by its slow pace and perhaps required a bit more of that extra-something (better performances, better execution perhaps?) - had the potential to be great.
It has that transcendent fairy-tale-like quality in glimpses here and there which I appreciate as a viewer that likes intelligent cinema. 'The Wild Child' by François Truffaut is another film with a similar subject matter if you liked this.
The film is based in 1828 Nuremberg, Germany and is about a German youth who claims to have grown up in total isolation of a darkened cell. His tale is so full of absurdities that it is astonishing that it was ever believed and is even today still believed by many people.
Good film let down by its slow pace and perhaps required a bit more of that extra-something (better performances, better execution perhaps?) - had the potential to be great.
It has that transcendent fairy-tale-like quality in glimpses here and there which I appreciate as a viewer that likes intelligent cinema. 'The Wild Child' by François Truffaut is another film with a similar subject matter if you liked this.