Wild Tigers I Have Known on DVD (2006)

Niall Mason from East Sussex, England [Highly rated reviewer] , 03/09/2007

This is what independant arthouse cinema should be. Creatively reminiscent of executive producer Gus Van Sants recent minimalist trilogy, this is a beautiful, unflinching film. Malcolm Stumpf and Patrick White are both excellent new actors.

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Apprentice from Norwich [Highly rated reviewer] , 07/04/2008

If you ever saw Pink Narcissus, Campfire or Raspberry Reich you may relate to this. The film is a series of what seem to be unrelated scenes shot in saturated colour and much flicking about! The storyline is there however to be fished out of the sureal/fantasy/ambiguous mess.

Basically it's about a 13yr old boy who is discovering his sexuality and his crush on an older boy. You never seem to get to learn of how it all ended up for him. You are left with many loose ends. You're not even sure if he is comfortable about his feelings.

A bit slow paced, somewhat tedious and nothing really memorable. It's all a bit like spending a few days inside the boys head to be honest.

Not a film I would want to watch again but if you like the aforementioned films of this genre then it's worth viewing.

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A customer from Folkestone , 20/08/2008

A movie mosaic, constructed out of lots of apparently disconnected clips, is a bit like a jigsaw puzzle in that, sometimes, you only see the whole picture once the last piece is put in place. In this case, the director fails miserably and you are none the wiser at the end of the movie what he is trying to put across.

I could only conclude that the director was trying to produce kiddie porn by shooting disjointed scenes so that the boy didn't know what he was getting involved with.

What is more alarming is that the parents of a 13 year-old would let their son be a part of this.

Cloaking the end result as 'art' or 'the exploration of burgeoning sexuality' gives no respectability to watching the lead character masturbating, cross-dressing or engaging in phone sex.

Anybody else photographing a boy in such activities would find themselves standing in the dock.

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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James from Brighton , 03/11/2008

Coming of age story about coming out 2 urself about your sexuality can be hard and this film seems to of captured that. Very salvidor dali in the design and cinematography, this surreal american film deals with the above very nicely without being over the top. Just to note for those of u concerned as i have just read other reviews, that the leading actor in this film after checking as i was also concerned, he was actually 16 at the time not 13 as the charcter he portrays. As the acting guild or whatever as well as other organisations and the law would not allow this.

  1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

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James from Brighton , 03/11/2008

Coming of age story about coming out 2 urself about your sexuality can be hard and this film seems to of captured that. Very salvidor dali in the design and cinematography, this surreal american film deals with the above very nicely without being over the top. Just to note for those of u concerned as i have just read other reviews, that the leading actor in this film after checking as i was also concerned, he was actually 16 at the time not 13 as the charcter he portrays. As the acting guild or whatever as well as other organisations and the law would not allow this.

  1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

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A customer from Folkestone , 20/08/2008

A movie mosaic, constructed out of lots of apparently disconnected clips, is a bit like a jigsaw puzzle in that, sometimes, you only see the whole picture once the last piece is put in place. In this case, the director fails miserably and you are none the wiser at the end of the movie what he is trying to put across.

I could only conclude that the director was trying to produce kiddie porn by shooting disjointed scenes so that the boy didn't know what he was getting involved with.

What is more alarming is that the parents of a 13 year-old would let their son be a part of this.

Cloaking the end result as 'art' or 'the exploration of burgeoning sexuality' gives no respectability to watching the lead character masturbating, cross-dressing or engaging in phone sex.

Anybody else photographing a boy in such activities would find themselves standing in the dock.

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

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