Some might be quick to suggest Mandico’s similarities with Guy Maddin due to his new film’s wacked-out narrative. . . . But Mandico is an avid student of Walerian Borowczyk . . . , and a first description of Wild Boys might be Goto, l’île d’amour by way of Hugo Pratt. Mandico himself, by the way, evokes Jules Verne and William S. Burroughs as antecedents, while the Venice catalog suggests a cinematic lineage from Méliès via Cocteau, Anger, Bava, Juran to Fassbinder.
Olaf Möller
March 12, 2018