An austere, absorbing study of what it means to be a person, The Wild Child is well represented on this MGM DVD. Beautifully shot in black-and-white by master cinematographer Néstor Almendros (who employed techniques from the silent age using modern equipment), the dual-layer widescreen transfer is clean and well presented, as is the Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono audio transfer (though as conceived, the sound palette used is naturalistic and undynamic). This vastly underrated Truffaut feature doesn't come with any real DVD extras, but the film itself is well served. |